Glass boxes
Oil on Canvas , 71 x 56 cm,2024
William presents a suited wooden centaur standing in a dark, open landscape as rockets rise behind him and small blue butterflies gather near his feet. The figure’s upper body performs order: hands adjusting a tie, posture held upright, surface carefully maintained. This gesture creates a clear performance of composure, while the animal body below suggests a deeper tension between control and instinct. Around him, the launching rockets point toward ambition and progress, but their fiery ascent also introduces pressure, acceleration, and instability. Against this charged atmosphere, the butterflies become a fragile counterpoint. They soften the scene without resolving it, offering a delicate reminder that identity is not only built through discipline, advancement, or social expectation, but also through vulnerability, uncertainty, and the quieter instincts that remain close to the ground. 
This work may speak to a tension between control and natural instinct. A wooden, suited centaur, embodies the split between cultivated identity of advancement and man’s untamed nature. While the upper body performs composure—adjusting a tie, maintaining surface—the animal lower half anchors instinct, impulse, and physical reality. Space-bound rockets launch as symbols of ambition and progress, set against a figure that remains internally divided. Small, delicate butterflies offer a fragile counterpoint to both technological escalation and human duality.
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Performance of composure  ✚
Performance of composure
This gesture creates a clear performance of composure, while the animal body below suggests a deeper tension between control and instinct.
Control and instinct   ✚
Control and instinct
This gesture creates a clear performance of composure, while the animal body below suggests a deeper tension between control and instinct.
Ambition and progress   ✚
Ambition and progress
Around him, the launching rockets point toward ambition and progress, but their fiery ascent also introduces pressure, acceleration, and instability.
Fragile counterpoint   ✚
Fragile counterpoint
Against this charged atmosphere, the butterflies become a fragile counterpoint.

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Glass boxes
Oil on Canvas , 71 x 56 cm, 2024
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William presents a suited wooden centaur standing in a dark, open landscape as rockets rise behind him and small blue butterflies gather near his feet. The figure’s upper body performs order: hands adjusting a tie, posture held upright, surface carefully maintained. This gesture creates a clear performance of composure, while the animal body below suggests a deeper tension between control and instinct. Around him, the launching rockets point toward ambition and progress, but their fiery ascent also introduces pressure, acceleration, and instability. Against this charged atmosphere, the butterflies become a fragile counterpoint. They soften the scene without resolving it, offering a delicate reminder that identity is not only built through discipline, advancement, or social expectation, but also through vulnerability, uncertainty, and the quieter instincts that remain close to the ground. 
From the Artist
This work may speak to a tension between control and natural instinct. A wooden, suited  centaur, embodies the split between cultivated identity of advancement and man’s untamed nature. While the upper body performs composure—adjusting a tie, maintaining surface—the animal lower half anchors instinct, impulse, and physical reality. Space-bound rockets launch as symbols of ambition and progress, set against a figure that remains internally divided. Small, delicate  butterflies offer a fragile counterpoint to both technological escalation and human duality. 
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