Branch of Human Light

31.5" x 9'
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic, Gesso, Retarder, Matte Polymer Medium, Charcoal, White Chalk, Varnish.
2019-2022

These figures form lenses to consider the self through. The wanderer, which is of the literal flesh carried through space, takes the form like a centipede, enacting constant reproduction of self to create movement. Their actions through their flesh are what leave trails for other wanderers, or else this form is a life lost in abyss, with no place to move to or from. The human births in the case the wanderer sees light. Truly the most abstract in this painting, metaphorically, as it is weightless, only present by the directions of perceptions from the wanderers illuminating the human form. Beyond the veil, the firmament, which is the view of the underside to water, the composition will hold hard edge figures to show mathematical relations that build the fabric of space, which leads to a pinnacle. Once that point is recognized the canvas ends. The next point is a singularity of composition, purely recognizing the human form in true flesh, without personal identity, aside from the light seeping from its mind.

The experience of humanistic self discovery is beautiful, and that is what I attempt to show.

The process of this work has stretched beyond two years currently, as part of a larger project exploring the mind and awareness, breaking different aspects of human existence into platitudes of reality.

Stylistically, the main classical studies to my art have mostly involved Dali, Michelangelo, and Francis Bacon. I do not look at many living artists, however David Chaim Smith, Robert Edward Grant, and Andrey Samarin have artistic processes which I resonate with and highly appreciate. Overall, these people as artists have embedded some notion of relation of antiquity, humanism, and some concoction of hermeticism in alchemic exploration of mind which has helped guide some of my studies.