:paintings
Abyss Study 1
The first of my “Abyss Study” series. I was unsatisfied with this completely improvised / unplanned piece after working on it for months until the very last minute when I finally figured out the colors on the final layer I added minutes before a salon in the Oakland Hills.
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Year
2025
Medium + Dimensions
Acrylic on stretched Canvas, 36"x48"
Hieros Gamos
Hieros gamos, hieros (ἱερός) meaning “holy” or “sacred” and gamos (γάμος) meaning “marriage,” or Hierogamy (Greek: ἱερὸς γάμος, ἱερογαμία “holy marriage”), is a sacred marriage that plays out between gods.
Sparked by a Black Sabbath lyric + the state of our world today, this painting expressively integrates images of nature and industry, the sacred and profane.
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Year
2024
Medium + Dimensions
Acrylic on stretched Canvas, 36"x48"
Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix (or The Warrior is Lost)
Initially a phoenix painted at a memorial for a friend lost, "Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix or The Warrior is Lost" was vandalized when the artist stepped away from the canvas for a moment during its conception, in parallel to how his friend's work was the target of an arsonist before they chose to leave this realm by taking their own life.
After a few months of contemplation of how to continue, I proceeded with black light sabre in one hand and brush in the other tracing with white paint every edge of the vandal's markings, becoming a ledger of light, a meditation in reverence of the ruin, to ultimately rise anew as what you see before you.
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Year
2024
Medium + Dimensions
Fluorescent Acrylic on stretched Canvas, Austrian Mixed Metal, Indian Brass, LED Light, Hand-bound + Printed 1/1 Book of Poetry; 18"x24"
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