Untitled 2 (Earth Tones)

This work reads like a cross‑section of weathered matter—an earthen spine rising through a pale, quiet field—where scraped strata and fissured skin suggest time compressed into pigment. Ochres and rusts carry the warmth of clay and oxidized metal, while charcoal bruises and slate interruptions puncture the surface like remembered shocks, refusing any single, stable narrative. The composition’s vertical thrust feels both geological and bodily, a presence that leans into the void around it, turning negative space into a hush that amplifies every abrasion. In its tactile insistence, the painting becomes an elegy for endurance: beauty not polished, but earned through erosion and repair.