Black and Heavy is conceived as the counterpoint to Light and White. If the earlier work captured the fragile clarity and fleeting purity that can sometimes illuminate our lives, this series confronts the opposite force: the density, weight, and darkness that often shape our existence. It is not darkness as mere absence of light, but as a presence in itself — oppressive, tangible, almost physical in the way it surrounds and molds us. The imagery seeks to translate the heaviness of existence into a visual language, where every shadow, every texture, and every silence carries the mark of endurance and struggle.
The project explores the idea that life oscillates between extremes: lightness and heaviness, clarity and obscurity, breath and suffocation. Black and Heavy refuses to romanticize suffering; instead, it acknowledges its reality, its inevitability, and the way it carves lines into our bodies and stories. Just as Light and White invites the viewer into a fragile hope, Black and Heavy grounds them in the gravity of existence — in the recognition that darkness is not a temporary visitor, but a constant companion we must learn to live with, to embrace, and to transform. In doing so, the work becomes not only a meditation on despair, but also an act of resilience: a way of giving form to the weight, so that it can be seen, named, and perhaps shared.
