A selador series · five works

The Attempt to Hold

September 2026

Beauty, another person, something difficult to behold. Five paintings about the impulse to give form to what cannot be kept. The image remains; its subject exceeds it.

A pale flower opens and frays against a dark painterly ground.
I — To Keep the Flower
A woman looks down beside a mirror in which her face looks outward.
II — The Returned Gaze
A damaged moth-like form hangs in selective light against darkness.
III — The Terrible
An empty garment lies on a wooden chair; the shadow beside it holds a seated human shape.
IV — What the Shadow Keeps
A figure passes into a dark threshold with one hand pressed to the stone jamb.
V — The Mark of Passing