“Both/And”

Year: 2024.
Size: 48x36
Materials: Sumi ink,vinyl,  tinted gesso, crayonon carved lauan plywood 
Price: $1100

Featured at solo exhibit: Atrás do Pensamento (Behind Thought)
based on Clarice Lispector’s 1973 novel Agua Viva. 

I think a lot about ambivalence, mixed emotions, the containers for conflicting opinions and divergent facts.
Difficult to capture in photos, but in person, one can see that both the light areas and the dark areas are full of different textures coordinated to a pattern beneath the application of color.  This one took required so much attention to subtlety and gentle touch.