What was never meant to be known
Lithography
Edition 1 of 2
51 cm x 65 cm
Artist’s Statement
What Was Never Meant to Be Known explores the tension between awareness and suppression through the act of looking. It questions the relationship between what is seen, what is hidden, and what was never meant to be uncovered. There is urgency in the gesture and a warning embedded in the confronting gaze of the central figure.
The mirror acts as a breach in the simulation, a rupture where forbidden awareness slips through containment. The figure meets the viewer’s gaze with recognition, as if aware that someone has glimpsed the edges of their constructed reality. In this space, perception is fragmented, and control remains just out of reach.
This work is not simply a scene; it is a trap, a recursive loop of watching and being watched. To be seen is to be made vulnerable, but to see yourself being seen is something else entirely.