Scarlet red dominates this piece - a color of intensity and vulnerability, often misunderstood, much like the subject it represents. It’s balanced by verdigris: that elusive tone “not quite green, not quite blue,” a hue that resists definition. Around these colors, smoke drifts in shifting gradients, carrying the weight of unspoken emotion and internal conflict.

Created during the artist’s ADHD diagnosis, “Misunderstood” reflects on the dual nature of self-expression - where creativity becomes both freedom and confinement. The closed wings at the painting’s center embody this tension: the desire to soar restrained by the structures of identity, expectation, and perception.

Drawing inspiration from DPR IAN’s “Skins” and its haunting refrain, “I’ve never asked to be like this,” the work meditates on difference, sensitivity, and the struggle to exist authentically within systems not built for everyone.

Misunderstood invites viewers to consider the contradictions within themselves - the traits that liberate and limit.