Ceremony
2023, Oil Herringbone Linen
27 x 41 inches, unframed
I wrote two letters on this painting sharing my thoughts and intentions behind this work. You can read them here:
Thoughts on Power & New Painting: "Ceremony"
Art, Meaning, and Symbolic Communication
Excerpt from Thoughts on Power & New Painting: “Ceremony”
If I had to choose one word to represent the intention behind my latest painting “Ceremony” it would be “power.”
This painting took me almost a year to make and through it I aimed to craft a symbolic representation of this perspective on the idea of power.
I wanted to create an image that would be a poetic and visceral reminder that connection, freedom, and power are not something distant, abstract, or apart from us. But that these things are immediate, present, and within us… to the degree that we assume responsibility for creating them.
“I am powerful, to the degree that I am responsible.”