Hopping
Archival inkjet print on paper
60 x 90 cm (without frame)
71.5 x 101.5 cm (with frame)
Edition 1/3
2022


Hopping is a digital painting from my early explorations into the possibilities of digital texture and image-making. The work depicts three rabbits mid-leap, suspended in a landscape that feels both familiar and unstable. Rather than situating them within a clearly defined setting, the scene dissolves into layered fields of color, gradient, and noise, allowing movement to take precedence over location.

In this work, I was interested in how digital surfaces could hold a sense of bodily weight, rhythm, and emotion. The rabbits appear to overlap and blur into one another, suggesting repetition, echo, or a single gesture unfolding across time. Their hopping is neither purely playful nor directional; it feels closer to an instinctive motion, driven by impulse rather than intention. The landscape beneath them shifts between ground and void, reinforcing a sense of uncertainty and suspension.

The digital textures are deliberately uneven and imperfect, resisting the smoothness often associated with digital imagery. Scratches, color bleeding, and translucent layers accumulate, echoing fragmented perceptions and fleeting emotional states. As part of my broader digital painting series, Hopping reflects my interest in non-linear narrative and myth-like imagery. The rabbits function less as symbolic figures and more as carriers of sensation, embodying a moment of movement, vulnerability, and quiet resistance against a flattened, one-dimensional reality.