Up in Smokecenters on the image of lips, transformed into a bold visual statement through color, repetition, and relief. A three-dimensional smoke form, built with papier-mâché, adds physical depth to the work and reinforces the sense of movement dissolving upward from the mouth.
The painting plays with the tension between solidity and disappearance. The lips remain fixed and vivid, while the smoke suggests something fleeting, unstable, and vanishing in real time. This contrast gives the work its energy: a moment suspended between presence and dissolution.
Through its layered surface and sculptural elements, the piece turns a simple motif into something more symbolic - a reflection on expression, disappearance, and the transient nature of a thought, a breath, or a moment.
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