Original Painting | Contemplating | Crossing: 2.4 | 100 x 100 cm Framing Option:Stretched (4.2cm depth)

Original Painting | Contemplating | Crossing: 2.4 | 100 x 100 cm Framing Option:Stretched (4.2cm depth)Title: Contemplating Paradox: Building from scratch with unfamiliar materials The Story I stood on a rock ledge above a pool I had never seen before. The sandstone was older than anything I could name. The water was green and still and waiting. I was not ready to jump. I was forming something the first draft of who I was becoming. This painting is that pause between understanding and action. The Crossing Crossing 2. 4 Awakening via Forming Forming the

Rice paper collage elements create edges within the fluid ground

that is what carries the climb forward

Sustained viewing reveals a painting that operates on two registers simultaneously

The land held something real that nobody around me could see

Werribee Gorge taught me something I keep forgetting

Title: Surrender

I painted three versions of the same body in a forest

The room arranges itself around what is simply there

The green was not skin — it was ground

therapy rooms

I kept the palette knife loose so the surface could breathe

and coral-orange passages to build depth in the rock formations