Pas de Quatre

soft pastel 65.5 x 45cm - image size 88 x 68.5 cm - framed

$ 2,900

Pas de Quatre This work depicts pelicans jostling for food, their bodies colliding in a flurry of wings and beaks, each driven by instinct and urgency. Visually beautiful like a choreographed dance, one emerges triumphant, rising slightly above the others: dominant, momentarily victorious. While the scene is drawn from observed behaviour, it speaks unmistakably of human dynamics. Competition, ambition hierarchy, survival. The scramble for recognition, for sustenance, whether literal or symbolic. In that brief, charged moment, I see both the vulnerability and the rawness of being human. The instinct to secure our place. The fear of missing out. The relief, or perhaps pride, of coming out on top. Even the victor remains part of the fray, never entirely separate from the chaos beneath. Through these subjects I am not depicting wildlife alone. I am examining power, rivalry and the uneasy balance between cooperation and competition that shapes so much of our shared experience.