Hanging by a thread

Acrylic paint on paper  |  21 x 29,7 cm (excl. frame)

Hanging by a Thread explores the fragile balance between hope and uncertainty, the delicate space where everything could still go either way.

The fish suspended on the thread carries a double meaning. In its own world, this moment usually marks an ending, caught, pulled from the water it knows. Yet in our language, hanging by a thread speaks of something else entirely: the suspended instant before an outcome, the breath held between falling and holding on.

This tension is the heart of the work. It captures that familiar middle point in life, the moment when nothing is decided yet, when we stand between loss and possibility. The thread holds, for now, and within that holding lies a quiet kind of choice: which way will it fall?

At its core, the work is a reflection on uncertainty and agency, on how even in our most precarious moments, we still carry some power to shape what comes next.