The geometry in this one is carrying real weight, the figure's posture and the way the limbs frame the composition keep pulling me back in. There's something grounded about the line work that makes the shift you're describing feel less like compromise and more like expansion. I've watched plenty of people wrestle with the money question, and the ones who stay interesting are the ones who don't pretend the shift isn't happening. You're naming it while you're making the work, which is rare. That honesty tends to protect the thing that matters.

I went through the exact same shift a few years ago, that feeling of 'will this change what I make?' I kept waiting for my work to become compromised or commercial, but honestly it just made me more intentional about the moments I was choosing to capture. The fear was bigger than the reality.