Vie en Rose” is an excavation of tenderness beneath pressure — a layered abstract work exploring resilience, memory, vulnerability, and the quiet decision to continue seeing beauty despite hardship.
Built through erosion, scraping, glazing, and reconstruction, the painting reveals buried reds, fractured architectural forms, pale atmospheric veils, and dark vertical ruptures that suggest both damage and survival. What first appears soft and romantic slowly unfolds into something more conflicted and emotionally complex.
The title references the idea of seeing life through “rose-colored glasses,” not as denial, but as endurance. Even through difficult experiences and emotional weight, the work refuses to collapse into cynicism. Beneath the scars and excavation remains a persistent softness — an insistence on holding onto light, tenderness, and hope.
Rather than illustrating pain directly, the painting feels unearthed from beneath it. Layers emerge like memory itself: partially buried, weathered, and transformed by time.
At 48 × 48 inches, the scale allows the work to function as both an intimate emotional landscape and a monumental physical presence.
