A dark oil painting shows a person in a cage holding a glowing orb, surrounded by shadowy, fiery figures in an eerie room.

Dark, gritty oil painting with heavy textured brushwork, surreal and symbolic. At the center, a faceless human figure sits slumped inside a faint, abstract cage, holding a dim ember-like orb close to the body. Surrounding the cage are shadowy human silhouettes circling, each carrying faint ember-glows like dying coals. In one corner, an abstract serpent shape coils with glowing eyes and a faint smile, smoky wispy tentacles stretching outward to envelop the whole scene, one of the tentacles delicately holding a small glowing phone. To the side, a black couch sits in shadow. On the back wall, a warped wavy mirror appears collage-like, as if cut from a catalogue, with scattered collage-style clothing pieces on the floor beneath it. Vertical streaks of pale light break softly through abstract blinds in the background, symbolizing escape. The palette is deep charcoals, dirty browns, muted blues, with ember-orange glows and pale light streaks. See more