This painting is about contrast: strength and vulnerability, triumph and ruin, creation and destruction. It invites the viewer to reflect on what power truly means and whether it is ever permanent.
This artwork explores the duality of power—its grandeur and its decay. The crown, symbolizing authority and legacy, emerges from a chaotic dance of ink and watercolor, blending regal golds and deep, burnt reds with darker, more ominous hues. The drips and splatters represent the fragility of leadership, the weight of history, and the inevitable erosion of control.
I let the pigments bleed into one another, blurring the lines between sovereignty and turmoil. Some areas of the crown remain sharp and proud, while others dissolve as if consumed by time or conflict. The abstract, almost ethereal nature of the background suggests a story left unfinished—perhaps a reign cut short, or an empire fading into memory.