mixed media 36 x 36

Stay Present is a call to awaken. In this painting, the macaw bursts through a world of fractured shapes and layered memories, its wings cutting across the canvas like a declaration of life. Its colors—electric blues, burning reds, greens that feel almost alive—embody the intensity of a moment fully lived. The macaw does not hesitate. It does not look back. It moves with the fierce clarity of something that knows the value of now.

Around it, the abstract landscape shifts like the mind in motion: fragments of the past, echoes of distraction, the architecture of everything we carry but cannot change. These textures press in from all sides, yet the macaw refuses to be swallowed by them. It chooses presence. It chooses flight. It chooses to exist vividly, even in the midst of chaos.

The dark silhouette beneath it is the shadow of absence—the version of ourselves that drifts through life half‑awake, consumed by rumination, regret, or longing for what once was. It is the reminder of how easily we can become ghosts in our own story.

Stay Present asks the viewer to step out of that shadow. To breathe. To feel. To return to the immediacy of their own body, their own senses, their own moment. It is an invitation to reclaim the brilliance of being alive right now, in this breath, in this heartbeat, in this unrepeatable instant.