Birth Ritual
12" × 9"
Oil on Aluminum
2026
Private Collection
A human skull emerges from darkness, illuminated from within by a vivid internal glow. The familiar symbol of mortality is transformed into something unexpected, suggesting not only endings but beginnings. Rather than functioning solely as a reminder of death, the image invites reflection on cycles of transformation, dissolution, and renewal.
Birth Ritual examines the relationship between mortality and becoming. The light contained within the skull suggests the possibility that every ending simultaneously creates the conditions for something new. The work challenges the tendency to view death and birth as opposing forces, instead presenting them as interconnected aspects of a continuous process of change.
Drawing upon traditions of memento mori and vanitas painting while reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens, the piece asks viewers to consider whether impermanence should be understood as loss alone, or as an essential condition of transformation itself.
Birth Ritual
12" × 9"
Oil on Aluminum
2026
Private Collection
A human skull emerges from darkness, illuminated from within by a vivid internal glow. The familiar symbol of mortality is transformed into something unexpected, suggesting not only endings but beginnings. Rather than functioning solely as a reminder of death, the image invites reflection on cycles of transformation, dissolution, and renewal.
Birth Ritual examines the relationship between mortality and becoming. The light contained within the skull suggests the possibility that every ending simultaneously creates the conditions for something new. The work challenges the tendency to view death and birth as opposing forces, instead presenting them as interconnected aspects of a continuous process of change.
Drawing upon traditions of memento mori and vanitas painting while reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens, the piece asks viewers to consider whether impermanence should be understood as loss alone, or as an essential condition of transformation itself.
