Coyote Ugly
oil
50 x 50 x 4 cm
Current location: In private collection
Original artwork price: € 1,380
There's a road that leads straight into a heart — and through it, if you're fast enough. Coyote Ugly is built on a joke as old as the desert: the painted tunnel on the side of a mountain, the kind only the Roadrunner gets to use. But I couldn't stop thinking about what that actually means. Love as an entrance. Love as an illusion. Love as the thing you chase so hard you run straight into rock. And yet — there's light on the other side. A sliver of blue sky, distant and real. So is the tunnel real or not? I'll let you decide. What I know is this: the heart-shaped arch is solid stone, yellow-bricked and built to last, framing a darkness that opens onto something bright. Maybe the joke's on the ones who hesitate. Maybe the ones who believe — who just go — are the ones who make it through.