Untitled 17 (Eruption)

This painting stages a volatile conversation between transparency and weight: a broad veil of rose and terracotta hovers over a restless field of acid greens, as if a remembered warmth is trying to settle over unruly growth. A jagged vertical fissure—midnight blue edged with ochre—acts like a seam or scar, splitting the surface into before-and-after while quietly anchoring the eye amid the churn of gestural marks. The sudden flare of lemon yellow at the lower edge reads as a pulse of renewal, a charged spill of light that insists on hope even as the larger forms press with bodily, almost weathered intensity. In its layered strokes and stained passages, the work suggests transformation not as a clean rebirth but as a messy, radiant persistence through fracture.