"Orcas on Mars" is a meditation on what we carry forward when all that we've known begins to fall away. In this work, I wanted to evoke a future unmoored from Earth yet tethered to its memory-an imagined moment on a distant, lifeless planet made heavy with the residue of oceans, of kinship, of ecological wisdom.

The orcas, mother and calf, are not simply figures; they are vessels of legacy. As apex predators and sentient beings with deep familial bonds, they float above the Martian plateau as both elegy and invocation. Their presence is a kind of refusal-to be forgotten, to be erased from the mythologies we bring with us beyond the atmosphere.

The visual language of the piece is kinetic, layered, and deliberately unstable. I leaned into contrasts: storms of color and tectonic textures, softness and friction, erosion and emergence. Each gesture is an echo-of what once was, and what might become again in altered form.