„Apple of my Eye“ explores the paradox of love through colour and form. The composition features a luminous purple ground punctuated by a stark white circle at its centre, that is cracking open. Within this circle, a green pupil, rendered in spray paint that becomes the focal point, its pupil bleeding downward in streaks of toxic green.
The work examines how affection can obscure perception. When someone becomes the apple of one’s eye, blindness often follows. This painting interrogates that vulnerability, specifically the inability to recognize toxicity in those we cherish most. Green and its associated hues function as visual markers of contamination and danger, creating tension against the vulnerability of the eye itself. The interplay between the geometric form of the white circle and the fluid decay of the spray paint mirrors the collision between romantic idealization and uncomfortable reality. What appears luminous at first glance reveals layers of complexity upon closer inspection.
