This piece was inspired by a visit to the Body Worlds exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science, an elaborate gallery of human anatomy preserved through the process of plastination.

In my painting, I tried to capture a liminality between dynamism and inanimacy: the body is skeletal yet animated, glistening with blood and tissue, suspended in an inextricable limbo between life and death. It starkly displays human vulnerability in the face of mortality, the fear of the unknown. But it also portrays that undeniably human expression: hope.