Inner Element is built around water as a symbol of emotion — something fluid by nature, but often learned to be contained.
The wooden horse refers to childhood: the period when the inner world is formed and many emotional habits first take shape. The crack running through its body becomes a mark of time and accumulated pressure.
Emotions that are repeatedly silenced do not simply disappear. Given enough time, containment becomes pressure — and pressure becomes rupture. In the painting, that rupture becomes physical: the body breaks open and the suppressed inner element pours through.