Heliotropism
18 × 24 × 1.5 Inches, Acrylic & Oil on Canvas - 2025
I remember the sun leaning close.
How I rose to meet it—
how the light moved across my skin,
quick, alive, a pulse I could almost hear.
I remember closing my eyes
and the darkness turning to copper,
bright, trembling, endless.
The air thick with heat,
the gold of it humming through me.
I remember being motion itself—
breath, warmth, surrender.
Even the shadows seemed to simmer,
desiring to burn.
I remember that flare inside the chest,
that charge of wanting,
as if a smaller sun had woken in me
to answer the greater one above.
It was not stillness.
It was ascent—
the whole world rising through me,
a promise to return, again, to light.
Collector Notes:
Capturing the remembered sensation of standing within sunlight, Heliotropism is the moment brightness becomes touch. Layers of acrylic and oil in ochre, gold, and burnished copper rise and fold across the canvas, creating a surface that hums with its own pulse. The carved spiral at its center gathers energy inward, holding warmth in suspension. Each variation of depth catches the light differently, evoking the flicker behind closed eyes when the sun presses close. Both ancient and immediate, the work reflects the human impulse to lift, to absorb, to become radiant through the act of reaching. It is not about the sun itself, but about the memory it leaves glowing beneath the skin.
18 × 24 × 1.5 Inches, Acrylic & Oil on Canvas - 2025
I remember the sun leaning close.
How I rose to meet it—
how the light moved across my skin,
quick, alive, a pulse I could almost hear.
I remember closing my eyes
and the darkness turning to copper,
bright, trembling, endless.
The air thick with heat,
the gold of it humming through me.
I remember being motion itself—
breath, warmth, surrender.
Even the shadows seemed to simmer,
desiring to burn.
I remember that flare inside the chest,
that charge of wanting,
as if a smaller sun had woken in me
to answer the greater one above.
It was not stillness.
It was ascent—
the whole world rising through me,
a promise to return, again, to light.
Collector Notes:
Capturing the remembered sensation of standing within sunlight, Heliotropism is the moment brightness becomes touch. Layers of acrylic and oil in ochre, gold, and burnished copper rise and fold across the canvas, creating a surface that hums with its own pulse. The carved spiral at its center gathers energy inward, holding warmth in suspension. Each variation of depth catches the light differently, evoking the flicker behind closed eyes when the sun presses close. Both ancient and immediate, the work reflects the human impulse to lift, to absorb, to become radiant through the act of reaching. It is not about the sun itself, but about the memory it leaves glowing beneath the skin.