Pandemonium

This oil painting presents as a traditional still life. At a glance, it’s nostalgic. Pretty. Familiar. But look again, and nothing is as it seems. The flowers are fresh and the bees are here, but the mirrored world reflects something else. The plastic soldiers are melting and even the pearls trail out of an opened box like a warning.

This piece is about unraveling. It holds the weight of what we inherit from childhood, from history, and from the systems we live within. There is a kind of psychological inheritance where sentimentality and destruction exist side by side.

The composition blends old and new: Victorian-style objects sit beside mass-produced toys. That tension is the point. We like to think of the past as stable, elegant, and knowable but it’s more complicated than that. The future isn’t just coming. It’s leaking in through the cracks.

Nothing here is static. Time moves through the scene like heat.

This painting is one part of a larger story. Another painting, in a different place, holds the rest of the thread. Together, they form a loop. A closed system of clues, echoes, and memory.

To follow the thread, you’ll need to unlock the box below. Find the right key and drag it over the box. See what unfolds. Find the Loop.