Suicide of a Scorpion

Oil on glossy cardboard · 24 × 36 inches

Drawing from a Middle Eastern parable, Suicide of a Scorpion transforms the trapped creature into a hybrid, human-like figure curled into itself. The elongated body forms a closed loop, mirroring the fiery perimeter that surrounds it. Entrapment becomes architecture.

The fractured orange field suggests flame without literal fire, pressing inward and denying horizon or escape. A descending chain anchors the figure to an unseen force, shifting the tale from myth to social allegory. Confinement is not accidental—it is systemic.

The sting turns inward, not in fury, but in exhaustion. Self-destruction emerges as the final act within a sealed structure. Rather than dramatizing death, the painting meditates on how conditions of pressure and inevitability reshape despair into inevitability.