Thresholds

Oil over Mixed Media on a 24" x 24" gallery-wrapped canvas.

Some moments exist at the edge of two worlds - neither fully above nor below, neither completely still nor in motion.  This is one of them.

"Thresholds" began as a meditation on the lines that exist between worlds.  the surface of the sea and its depths.  Land and open water.  Heaven and earth.  The spiritual and the physical.  These boundaries are everywhere, and yet they are never quite solid - light passes through them, life moves across them, and something sacred seems to live right at the edge.

The painting builds from abstraction upward, layer by layer, until the forms emerged:  creatures in motion, creatures at rest, a horizon on fire, a seafloor held in quiet.  All of it suspended in a single breath of a moment.

This is where the work began  and how it came to be.