The ouroboros is one of the oldest symbols humans have drawn, a serpent consuming its own tail, endlessly. What it describes is not destruction but continuity, the way things that seem to end are actually turning into the next version of themselves, the way creation feeds on what came before it and produces what comes after. Every artist who has ever made something understands this intuitively, you use what you have, and what you make becomes the material for whatever comes next.

I worked with watercolor on cotton canvas, materials that move and bleed and resist control in ways that feel honest to the subject, because the ouroboros is not a tidy symbol and a tidy technique would have lied about it. The color gradients that radiate outward carry warmth, the particular warmth of things that sustain themselves because they are connected to something larger than any single part of them.

This piece was made for TikTok's Seattle offices, for a space where ideas circulate between people who are constantly making and consuming and making again. The brief and the symbol arrived at the same place: that the energy generated when diverse people share a creative space is not diminished by the sharing. It compounds. It feeds itself and it keeps going.