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Sabek Shelter, 2025
$5,700.00
Releasing 3pm EST 01/15/2026
Sabek
Shelter, 2025
Acrylic, oil, airbrush, and spray paint on canvas
57 1/2 x 38 1/4 in
146 x 97 cm
146 x 97 cm
This body of work unfolds as a quiet psychological journey rather than a linear narrative of conflict and resolution. The animal figures that inhabit these scenes do not represent domination or survival, but states of awareness ,moments in which instinct, fear, and calm coexist within the same internal landscape.
The central figure moves through different conditions: seeking shelter, advancing with alertness, confronting tension, and finally arriving at a state of integration. Nature is not presented as a backdrop, but as an active force that surrounds, pressures, protects, and transforms. Mushrooms, serpents, fire, birds, and vegetation operate as signals codes that speak the language of instinct rather than reason.
At the edges of this sequence, an observing figure appears. Detached and elevated, it does not intervene in the conflict, but witnesses it. This presence introduces distance ,a perspective from which the cycle can be seen as a whole. Here, resolution is not achieved through control or victory, but through awareness.
The central figure moves through different conditions: seeking shelter, advancing with alertness, confronting tension, and finally arriving at a state of integration. Nature is not presented as a backdrop, but as an active force that surrounds, pressures, protects, and transforms. Mushrooms, serpents, fire, birds, and vegetation operate as signals codes that speak the language of instinct rather than reason.
At the edges of this sequence, an observing figure appears. Detached and elevated, it does not intervene in the conflict, but witnesses it. This presence introduces distance ,a perspective from which the cycle can be seen as a whole. Here, resolution is not achieved through control or victory, but through awareness.