Hell and High Water

80 x 60, acrylic on canvas

Hell and High Water is a haunting, cinematic composition where chaos, memory, and resilience converge. Paul Schexnayder constructs a layered urban dreamscape that feels submerged in both water and time. Architectural fragments, a water tower, neon signs, shadowy figures, and classic yellow cars dissolve and re-emerge through washes of blues, greys, and searing color bursts—evoking both flooding and emotional overwhelm. Schexnayder conjures a world where nostalgia and survival bleed into one another—a visual elegy for places lost and lives in flux. It’s both a reckoning and a reverie, suspended in the quiet before the next storm.