Upwelling
18 × 24 × 1.5 Inches, Acrylic on Canvas - 2024
From the weight of shadow, I rise.
Pressure becomes motion;
silence, a kind of breath.
The deep gives what it’s been keeping—
minerals, memories, light folded into darkness.
Everything cold begins to shimmer.
I rise through strata and salt,
carrying the remnants of what was buried.
Gold catches on my edges,
fractures into brightness,
and the water trembles with remembering.
This is not ascent by force.
It is returning—
the body knowing how to rise again.
Collector Notes:
Upwelling transforms the idea of relic into resurgence. Layers of dark, mineral-rich pigment shimmer with metallic undertones, evoking the slow movement of light through depth. Subtle golds and bronzes emerge like ancient gilding rediscovered beneath sediment, suggesting sacred imagery reanimating itself from below. The composition recalls the oceanic phenomenon for which it is named: the upward movement of cold, nutrient-rich waters that renew the surface. Through this visual metaphor, Upwelling becomes a meditation on perseverance and regeneration: how, even under the heaviest sky, the unseen currents continue to rise.
18 × 24 × 1.5 Inches, Acrylic on Canvas - 2024
From the weight of shadow, I rise.
Pressure becomes motion;
silence, a kind of breath.
The deep gives what it’s been keeping—
minerals, memories, light folded into darkness.
Everything cold begins to shimmer.
I rise through strata and salt,
carrying the remnants of what was buried.
Gold catches on my edges,
fractures into brightness,
and the water trembles with remembering.
This is not ascent by force.
It is returning—
the body knowing how to rise again.
Collector Notes:
Upwelling transforms the idea of relic into resurgence. Layers of dark, mineral-rich pigment shimmer with metallic undertones, evoking the slow movement of light through depth. Subtle golds and bronzes emerge like ancient gilding rediscovered beneath sediment, suggesting sacred imagery reanimating itself from below. The composition recalls the oceanic phenomenon for which it is named: the upward movement of cold, nutrient-rich waters that renew the surface. Through this visual metaphor, Upwelling becomes a meditation on perseverance and regeneration: how, even under the heaviest sky, the unseen currents continue to rise.