Original painting. Oil on canvas, charcoal powder, pieces of a dollar bill. 18x24 inches. 2025.
This painting centers on a fragile figure suspended in a pale, nearly empty field. The body is reduced to essential signs: a mask-like face, hollow eyes, an exposed interior, and a single yellow hand or root anchoring the form at the bottom of the canvas. The figure feels both present and dissolving, as if it is being held together by gesture, memory, and material.
The work is built through restraint as much as accumulation. Much of the surface remains white, allowing small marks, stains, scratches, and dense passages of paint to carry emotional weight. The thick impasto gives the body a tactile presence, while the open ground creates a sense of isolation and silence.
The dark central cavity suggests an interior space: a wound, vessel, void, or container. Around it, the figure’s pale surface reads like skin, plaster, bone, or residue. The yellow hand introduces a note of warmth and urgency, grounding the otherwise spectral form.
Rather than describing a specific event, the painting explores vulnerability, discomfort, and endurance. It presents the body as something incomplete but still insistently visible: damaged, exposed, and alive within the quiet pressure of the surrounding space.
Original painting. Oil on canvas, charcoal powder, pieces of a dollar bill. 18x24 inches. 2025.
This painting centers on a fragile figure suspended in a pale, nearly empty field. The body is reduced to essential signs: a mask-like face, hollow eyes, an exposed interior, and a single yellow hand or root anchoring the form at the bottom of the canvas. The figure feels both present and dissolving, as if it is being held together by gesture, memory, and material.
The work is built through restraint as much as accumulation. Much of the surface remains white, allowing small marks, stains, scratches, and dense passages of paint to carry emotional weight. The thick impasto gives the body a tactile presence, while the open ground creates a sense of isolation and silence.
The dark central cavity suggests an interior space: a wound, vessel, void, or container. Around it, the figure’s pale surface reads like skin, plaster, bone, or residue. The yellow hand introduces a note of warmth and urgency, grounding the otherwise spectral form.
Rather than describing a specific event, the painting explores vulnerability, discomfort, and endurance. It presents the body as something incomplete but still insistently visible: damaged, exposed, and alive within the quiet pressure of the surrounding space.
