Soft Apocalypse (2025)

In Soft Apocalypse, the end of the world arrives quietly, not with fire or ruin, but with melancholy stillness. A barefoot woman in a faded pink dress sits sidesaddle on a white horse amid an abandoned car park. The evening sky burns faintly gold against bruised clouds, and a broken shopping trolley filled with wilted flowers leans beside her. Everything around her feels touched by both decay and grace.

⤷ Cox captures the tenderness of desolation: a scene poised between resignation and reverence. The painting reimagines post-collapse imagery through the lens of Romanticism, beauty surviving through grief. The horse, luminous against the ashen background, becomes a relic of purity in a corroded world; the woman’s downward gaze suggests mourning rather than fear.

The work speaks of a generation inheriting ruin and choosing to sit with it, to witness the quiet aftermath of excess and abandonment. What remains is not hope, but gentleness — a refusal to look away.