24×18 Inches
Acrylic on Canvas
2021
Medusa takes its title from the myth not as illustration, but as formal logic. The white lines coil, knot, and proliferate across the dark ground in a continuous field that feels at once animated and restrained. What first appears tangled resolves through repetition, pressure, and containment. The surface is not organized around a central image or fixed hierarchy; instead, structure emerges through accumulation, as each mark gains force through its relation to every other.
The contrast between the pale, looping forms and the darker ground gives the work its tension. The painting holds between movement and paralysis, density and exposure, producing a field that feels both immediate and charged. Rather than depicting Medusa, the work invokes her through rhythm and proliferation—ophidian lines that twist, gather, and resist stillness, positioned on a background suggestive of stone. The result is a singular original whose force lies in the balance between fluid motion and controlled construction.
24×18 Inches
Acrylic on Canvas
2021
Medusa takes its title from the myth not as illustration, but as formal logic. The white lines coil, knot, and proliferate across the dark ground in a continuous field that feels at once animated and restrained. What first appears tangled resolves through repetition, pressure, and containment. The surface is not organized around a central image or fixed hierarchy; instead, structure emerges through accumulation, as each mark gains force through its relation to every other.
The contrast between the pale, looping forms and the darker ground gives the work its tension. The painting holds between movement and paralysis, density and exposure, producing a field that feels both immediate and charged. Rather than depicting Medusa, the work invokes her through rhythm and proliferation—ophidian lines that twist, gather, and resist stillness, positioned on a background suggestive of stone. The result is a singular original whose force lies in the balance between fluid motion and controlled construction.
