Fall down seven times. Get up eight.

Acrylic over oil on canvas
5 × 5 in.

Fall down seven times. Get up eight. is a small canvas built from an unstable material relationship: acrylic layered over oil. The surface carries that tension through cracking, distress, and resistance, turning the object into a record of friction as much as image.

The composition centers on a dark arched form inside an orange field. It can read as a doorway, shelter, wound, tunnel, or obstruction. Green and brown passages interrupt the field, suggesting something organic or buried pressing through the surface.

The title gives the work its emotional structure without over-explaining it. It is not triumphal. It is blunt: damage happens, failure repeats, and the only available answer is another attempt.