Selected (A World of Marbles)

This still life turns childhood marbles into a small cosmology: a dense, gleaming congregation of spheres whose trapped swirls and milky inclusions read like weather systems suspended in glass. The composition stages a quiet tension between abundance and isolation—the lone marble adrift in blue space feels like an exile or a chosen wanderer, while the clustered bowl suggests community, memory, and gravity’s pull. Light is handled with surgical clarity, turning reflections into tiny apertures that invite the eye inward, so that surface sparkle becomes a meditation on containment, fragility, and the secret worlds we carry. The cool ground amplifies the warm chromatic bursts, making the scene oscillate between playfulness and a solemn, archival tenderness.