Never Anyone’s Number One

Collage, Resin and Acrylic

43 × 36 × 1.25 in

2026

Never Anyone's Number One explores the quiet grief of always arriving second—to love, to memory, to expectation. Layers of collage, resin, acrylic, and drawing create a fractured narrative where absence becomes as tangible as presence. The irregular silhouette rejects the certainty of a traditional rectangle, allowing the edge of the panel to become part of the emotional language of the piece.

At its center, a seated woman leans into the weight of uncertainty while fragments of text, vintage imagery, and vivid fields of fluorescent orange collide around her. The work embraces contradiction: tenderness and anger, longing and resilience, memory and reinvention.

Rather than offering resolution, the piece asks what remains after repeatedly being chosen second—and whether reclaiming your own story is enough to finally become your own first choice.