This painting stages a primal creation myth where birth, protection, and danger coexist in a single coiling form. A serpent-like guardian wraps around a fetal figure with an ambiguity that is both tender and predatory—its split face, one pale and mask-like, the other dark and tangled with looping, watchful eyes, suggests that the forces that shelter us can also threaten to consume. The womb-chamber below holds a peaceful, unaware body, its innocence made fragile by the tension of what hovers above. Thick black contours bind creature and child into the same organism, blurring the boundary between nurturer and devourer, sanctuary and risk. Ultimately, the work reflects the elemental truth of beginnings: that life emerges in the shadow of something larger, ancient, and unknowable.