Danielle O'Connor Akiyama | Falling... Falling Into Your Grace St Edwards Crown

Danielle O'Connor Akiyama | Falling... Falling Into Your Grace St Edwards CrownDanielle O'Connor Akiyama Falling Falling Into Your Grace Original oil painting The title proposes a state of surrender the moment of falling as grace rather than loss, descent as a form of arrival. O'Connor Akiyama's oil paintings consistently work in this territory: the threshold between states, the moment before resolution, the space between the physical and the felt. Her surfaces are built with the patience that oil paint demands and rewards,

Hand embellished giclée on canvas

The falling blossom is a meditation on impermanence

and visual artists frequently crossed paths in the same studios

Ghost — No Surrender

with stunning banality

yellow and sharp-scented

Darkness Fell

this piece overlays a vintage world map with bold

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and a handful of loose

The show attracted over 300

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