Mountains 11 (Icebound Peaks)

This work stages a mountainous silhouette as both shelter and threshold, where glacial blues dissolve into mist and the darker ridgelines hold the weight of unspoken distance. The composition leans on sharp, angular peaks that fracture the sky, while splintered strokes and flecks of ember-like orange suggest a buried pulse—an inner weather—beneath the calm. Light is treated less as illumination than as memory, drifting across the rock faces and pooling near the waterline, so the landscape becomes a meditation on endurance: sublime, indifferent, and quietly alive.