closed circuit (sea of forgiveness)

oil and oil stick on canvas
My work is an interplay between opacity and transparency via the textured application of paint, sheer washes, and/or exposed canvas to question what we (can) see, what comes through, and what lies beyond. My compositional themes center around eroticism, animism, religious mythology, and fate: what and who is destined for us, what we reach for, how that calls for us.
Informed by observation, but untethered from strict representation, my work moves between descriptive and intuitive. Undulating figures, anthropomorphic landscapes, and swaths of color morph in and out of each other and the spaces they occupy. My compositions combine religious iconography with geometric abstraction to depict divine figures: plant and animal spirits, gods and goddesses, celestial bodies.
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