Hijinks
18 × 24 × 1.5" Inches, Acrylic on Linen, 2024
It begins in light—
a clean weave, open and waiting.
Then color arrives,
reckless and radiant,
splashing joy across the surface,
marking the first heartbeat of becoming.
But nothing stays pure for long.
Layer by layer,
the hues deepen, blur,
fold into one another—
grief against laughter,
loss against discovery,
love staining everything it touches.
The canvas thickens with memory.
The surface grows alive with what’s been lived.
Still, the light underneath remains—
the place where everything began,
shining through.
Collector Notes:
Hijinks celebrates the exuberance of creation while honoring the complexity that follows. Painted with acrylic on raw linen, the work’s vibrant gestures allow the natural weave to remain visible, symbolizing the unguarded beginnings from which expression arises. Each layer of color adds to its history: bright strokes of joy tempered by shadow, exuberance entwined with reflection. The composition becomes a map of experience, tracing how life accumulates, overlaps, and transforms us. Beneath the surface energy, a quiet truth persists: that even as we are altered by time, the original impulse to create—to play, to feel, to reach—endures.
18 × 24 × 1.5" Inches, Acrylic on Linen, 2024
It begins in light—
a clean weave, open and waiting.
Then color arrives,
reckless and radiant,
splashing joy across the surface,
marking the first heartbeat of becoming.
But nothing stays pure for long.
Layer by layer,
the hues deepen, blur,
fold into one another—
grief against laughter,
loss against discovery,
love staining everything it touches.
The canvas thickens with memory.
The surface grows alive with what’s been lived.
Still, the light underneath remains—
the place where everything began,
shining through.
Collector Notes:
Hijinks celebrates the exuberance of creation while honoring the complexity that follows. Painted with acrylic on raw linen, the work’s vibrant gestures allow the natural weave to remain visible, symbolizing the unguarded beginnings from which expression arises. Each layer of color adds to its history: bright strokes of joy tempered by shadow, exuberance entwined with reflection. The composition becomes a map of experience, tracing how life accumulates, overlaps, and transforms us. Beneath the surface energy, a quiet truth persists: that even as we are altered by time, the original impulse to create—to play, to feel, to reach—endures.