What Was Released Without Urgency (No.2),

Twilight Vigil, Enchanted Spaces 
Oil on Canvas, 2024,
61 x 61 cm ( 24.016 x 24.016 inches)

At dusk, two women pause among wildflowers as lanterns lift gradually into a shifting evening sky.

These paintings hold a moment at dusk, after the sun has set and before night fully arrives. Two young women stand among wildflowers, seen from a slightly lowered vantage point that positions the viewer at a distance, present without participation. Around them, lanterns are in various states of release — some already lifted into the sky, others still held close. 

The figures remain composed and unhurried. In one work, a woman raises her arms in a measured gesture, while her companion steadies a lantern beside her. In later paintings, figures are seen from farther back, paused just before the remaining lanterns are let go. The repetition across works suggests continuity rather than progression, as though the moment extends rather than concludes. 

Colour draws from the full range of evening light. Wildflowers glow in heightened tones beneath the residual wash of sunset and sky, while above them clouds shift and churn, carrying visible movement across the surface. Wiped-back oil grounds and paint drips allow the sky to remain unsettled, active rather than resolved. 

Within this changing field, the figures hold their position. Light moves, the sky shifts, lanterns rise. The scene remains open, suspended in the interval where release has begun but is not yet complete.