Color does not exist in isolation. It is always bound, by the object that carries it, the light that reveals it, the eye that perceives it. In this series, I attempt to momentarily sever those bonds. Through layered film and digital photography, light painting, and ink, I extract color from its context and set it in motion. But what appears to be escape is never truly that. The color finds no exit; it moves from one form of containment to another, ultimately arrested within the frame itself. False Egress is a meditation on the nature of freedom and the limits of free will. Every apparent liberation is revealed, on closer inspection, to be simply a new boundary. The door was never open. We only believed it was.