Milk Teeth
Milk Teeth exists in the unsettling space between innocence and inheritance.
Its title reads like a fragment of forgotten childhood—a phrase that is both tender and disquieting. Milk teeth are our first inheritance, temporary structures that must fall away before permanence can emerge. Here, that biological rite becomes a metaphor for memory itself: what is lost, what is carried forward, and what quietly haunts us long after childhood has ended.
The central figure appears suspended between earthly existence and spiritual awakening. Their porcelain-blue skin evokes both vulnerability and transcendence, while the vacant white eyes reject ordinary portraiture in favor of something visionary. They are not looking outward—they are looking inward, into a place where memory, ancestry, grief, and transformation coexist.
Dragonflies orbit the body like guardians of impermanence. Crimson threads weave through the composition as if mapping invisible emotional pathways. Primitive crowns, crosses, hand-drawn faces, and faded archival imagery accumulate into a visual language of inherited identity, suggesting that every human life is stitched together by stories we did not choose but nevertheless carry.