Original artwork description:

Erased Before Speaking explores the tension between expression and erasure, between memory and silence. The work presents fragments of handwritten text—some legible, others violently crossed out or inverted—hovering across a surface that feels more like a mental landscape than a conventional painting.

Rather than offering a clear message, the piece withholds, disrupts, and denies resolution. The red text suggests urgency or confession, yet it is interrupted—often mid-thought—as if the artist deliberately censors their own voice. The result is a visual document of interrupted interiority: thoughts that wanted to be spoken but remained unfinished.

The painting operates at the boundary of language and image, embracing vulnerability as a central gesture. It evokes influences from conceptual art and post-minimalism, but its voice remains intimate and unrepeatable. The act of erasure becomes not a denial, but an assertion—of hesitation, of trauma, or of control.

In this work, silence is not emptiness; it is the final, deliberate word.

Materials used:

Acrylic and Watercolor on Linen canvas

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