OF SHACKS AND MAZES

Of Shacks and Mazes is a textured, abstract mixed-media work that speaks to survival, complexity, and the layered realities of lived experience. The title evokes both shelter and confusion—structures built out of necessity and pathways formed through trial and error. Together, they become metaphors for social, psychological, and emotional landscapes shaped by resilience.

Rough textures and fragmented forms echo the materiality of shacks: improvised, weathered, and honest. Intersecting lines and repeating patterns suggest mazes—systems that entrap, protect, or challenge, depending on how one moves through them. There is no single route, no clear exit, only navigation. The surface bears evidence of pressure and persistence, mirroring lives built under constraint yet driven by ingenuity.

The abstraction resists sentimentality. Instead, it confronts complexity—how environments shape identity, how limitation breeds adaptation, and how survival itself becomes a creative act. Of Shacks and Mazes invites viewers to consider the invisible architectures we inhabit: economic systems, social structures, and internal narratives. It is a work about finding direction without certainty, and dignity within disorder—where endurance becomes its own form of beauty.