Virtuous captures the tentative reconstruction of self that happens before you realize you’re about to face even deeper upheaval. This piece predates the season of loss that shaped The Watcher, and in hindsight, it reads like the inhale before the world contracts.

The extreme close-up, rendered with painstaking realism, reflects a period when life felt narrowly framed but fiercely examined.

The neon palette behaves like emotional circuitry—green for renewal, red for exposed nerves, blue the numbed.

Together, they map a person slowly regaining dimensionality after being flattened by survival demands.