What is a person's life actually for, when work no longer provides the answer?
More people than ever are stepping outside the structures that once defined who they were. Some by choice, some not. As automation accelerates this shift, the question of purpose, once postponed by the rhythm of work, becomes harder to avoid.
The Lighthouse: Life After Work is painted from inside that moment.
The project places figures drawn from early 20th-century photography and silent cinema into a future that has not yet taken shape. Stripped of their original context, they appear in open, undefined spaces, without the usual structures that explain them: no clear role, no visible function, only presence.
It is not a dystopia, and not a fairytale. The work holds two truths at once: that what lies beyond obligatory labour may open something more personal and more real, and that the transition itself is disorienting and unresolved.
The figures are not lost, but they have not yet arrived. They stand at the beginning of a question they cannot yet answer.
The paintings stay with that moment, and treat it as something worth noticing.
