Oil painting: Grids of Becoming (18 x 24)

Saturday

  

 Oil painting: Grids of Becoming (18 x 24)

Oil painting: Grids of Becoming (18 x 24)


It feels like ‘Life on the Other Side’ in the other mode; it’s half map, half dream. The black stars behind would look as if one were gazing out into space or gazing really deep in one’s subconscious. Over this there’s an open organization in squares, little like framing or a shattered pane, evoking both containment and passage. The threads of light and soft pink and purples along the lines warm it with life, something between the twist of some vital thing trying to grow, or break out. It folds time- holding that split second in transition, where order will flick into disorder or where something spiritual will come into form. It’s a still mysterious full-on motion with the force compelling one to stop in order to wonder what is just beyond that frame.

Oil painting: Subduction (11 x 14)

Wednesday

Oil painting: Subduction (11 x 14)
 
Oil painting: Subduction (11 x 14)

 
A violent dance of colors and tectonic emotion, Subduction portrays the unforgiving churn of unfelt forces. Red fissures cut through fields of turquoise and violet, giving the sense of energies at the heart of the earth or the soul. The central cyan shard, shot through with burnt orange incisions, jagged and maroon bordering, speaks of some buried center trying to make its way through disorder — as if a soul were breaking out from the center of repression or a continent were breaking its way through the floor of the ocean.

 

Oil painting: Where Silence Shaped a Face (11 x 14)


This piece looks at the coming of shape from nothingness, showing the pull between breaking apart and coming to life. A main figure comes forth, unclear in who they are but feeling deeply—created with shades of dark purple, blue, and broken gold. The loose brushstrokes and changes in light give clues to a story about a struggle within oneself, where painting acts as both a way to let go and a discovery. Instead of giving a clear subject, this work asks for looking inward: it speaks not just to the conscious mind but to the inner self of the viewer; it brings up that moment when an unvarnished and unresolved truth surfaces.