Portal series, 2023-present
“A more esoteric line of reasoning has long associated the circle with ideas of eternity, infinity, perpetuity, and immensity. The notion of infinity as a circle was portrayed by the early Christian father Saint Augustine (AD 354-430), who described God as a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
—The Book of Circles, by Manuel Lima
A selection of the ongoing series of portals which have been emerging since 2023 in my studio.
hidden depths / gouache, ink, wax, and pigments on distressed paper, 11x14", 2023
samsara / gouache, wax, and pigments on distressed paper, 11x14", 2024 (sold)
saktipata / gouache, ink, wax, and pigments on distressed paper, 12x16", 2025
neither imposing the self upon it nor disappearing into it / gouache, wax, pigment, and chrysocolla on distressed paper, 11x14", 2023
imagine your breath as this shape / gouache, wax, hematite, and yellow ochre on distressed paper, 11x14", 2023
the ache and what surrounds it / gouache, wax, hematite, and azurite on distressed paper, 11x14", 2024
it has already happened, it has not yet happened, it is always happening / gouache, wax, and pigments on distressed paper, 11x14", 2024
the deepest felt / gouache, wax, hematite, and malachite on distressed paper, 11x14", 2024
nebula / gouache, wax, and pigments on distressed paper, 11x14", 2024
into the vortex / gouache, ink, wax, and pigments including green umber and chrysocolla on paper, 22x30", 2023
breathe, honey / gouache, ink, and wax on paper, 11x14", 2025
with your lamp of breath before you / watercolor, gouache, wax, and pigments on paper, 11x14", 2024 (sold)
gray wound / gouache on paper, 9x12", 2024
what happens if you consider this a self portrait / watercolor, gouache, wax, and pigments on paper, 22x30", 2023
the pattern more complicated / gouache, wax, and pigments on paper, 11x14", 2024
In early concussion recovery in 2020, a brain was one of the first things I painted. I dripped red into it, imagining the bruise that had bled through my own. Then brushed a single green enso (the Zen circle symbolizing meditative absorption) around it, to invoke healing. It’s not lost on me that these portals at times resemble brains. At other times they resemble galaxies, whirlpools, wounds.
In every case, they anchor a frequency of a central complexity held and reverberating within a surrounding field — which is often what it feels like to try to sense something ephemeral which might be (like a portal) an opening to transformation.
In life, it may be the moment you allow yourself to witness a thought, actually feel into an emotion, or open to consider a possibility you had not glimpsed.
Enter that new complexity? And everything might change.
