"Eternal Fire & Pandora Box"

Oil on Canvas
In this painting, I explore the cyclical nature of human experience—how trauma, hope, and cosmic forces exist simultaneously across all dimensions of time. At the heart of the composition stands an ancient tree, the axis mundi around which all of existence revolves, witnessing the eternal dance between creation and destruction.
The sleek, futuristic iteration of Pandora's box rests below, reimagined as a modern cube that holds within it all the evils and hopes that have been—or will be—unleashed upon humanity. This box exists outside of linear time, representing both past traumas that continue to echo through generations and future catastrophes that cast their shadows backward into our present moment. It is always present, always relevant, always waiting.
Riding through the cosmic void on a horse made of dark matter—the very substance that holds our universe together—is Andromeda herself, crowned with stars and galaxies. She moves through space decorated with the Andromeda galaxy and the constellation Scorpio, hidden within the glitch of the dark sky. Once chained as a sacrifice, she now rides free through the cosmos, perhaps chasing the eternal fire of knowledge, or fleeing from the consequences of cosmic awareness.
The floating crown speaks to the burden of divinity and rule, the weight of consciousness that comes with true seeing. Above, another figure dives through the clouds, suggesting the constant motion between earthly concerns and celestial understanding.
And always, in the reflecting waters below, the ever-present eyes watch—that unnamable consciousness that witnesses all, the eternal observer that sees how past, present, and future trauma interweave with hope and transformation.
This is not merely a scene but a meditation on the eternal return—how the same cosmic dramas play out across millennia, how the contents of Pandora's box continue to shape our reality, and how the eternal fire of consciousness burns through all of time, illuminating both our suffering and our transcendence.
The tree remains, the eyes remain, the fire burns eternal—reminding us that in the face of cosmic forces, we are both witness and participant in an ancient story that has no beginning and no end