Consciousness Expansion | Acrylic, ink, and metal leaf) on canvas over plexiglass | 42” x 58”

“During those empty, sleepless nights, I thought a lot about The Knife as an idea…” – Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. Echoing Rushdie’s use of language as a tool to dissect reality, I wield art as my blade. This piece is a profound introspection on dismantling prejudices and preconceived notions, urging self-examination over blame. The image of an eye pierced by a knife opens to a universe in perpetual expansion, symbolizing a radical reset for a world in need of transformation. The world needs a drastic reboot, emulating Rushdie’s linguistic knife with his visual one.