Original Painting | We Exist | Crossing: 5.1 | 160 x 160 cm Framing Option:Natural Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) Restrained luminosity

Restrained luminosity

The water carried reflections without effort

Sustained viewing reveals the difference between rest and release

I painted this when the boundary between me and the world had dissolved

Not the soft gradient people imagine

Original Painting | We Exist | Crossing: 5.1 | 160 x 160 cm Framing Option:Natural Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) Restrained luminosityTitle: We Exist Paradox: The body has just arrived in a lifetime The Story I painted four figures because embodiment is not private. When you finally arrive in your body, you see that everyone else is doing the same thing in their own way. The waterhole at dusk holds that moment the light going golden, the reflections getting deeper, and every person in the scene just being there. No performance. No escape. Just presence held in water. The Crossing