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Bones Ache With Remembrance
24" × 18"
Oil on wood
2025
Part of the Oracles collection.
Bones Ache With Remembrance explores the ways memory embeds itself within the body long after language has failed to contain it. A pale torso emerges from a mass of intertwined roots, suggesting a figure simultaneously growing from and bound to the histories beneath it. The image speaks to inheritance, grief, identity, and the invisible weight carried across generations.
Created as part of the Oracles series, the painting examines how personal identity is shaped by forces that precede conscious choice. Throughout the collection, figures appear alongside symbolic forms that function as manifestations of psychological and ancestral influence. Here, the roots serve as both foundation and tether. They nourish the figure while also anchoring it to experiences, stories, and losses that continue to exert influence from below the surface.
The title suggests that memory is not merely intellectual. Certain experiences become embodied, residing in posture, instinct, longing, and emotional response. The work reflects on the ways people carry traces of family histories, relationships, places, and transformations long after those moments have passed. Through its restrained symbolism and contemplative realism, Bones Ache With Remembrance invites reflection on what remains within us after time has moved on.
Bones Ache With Remembrance
24" × 18"
Oil on wood
2025
Part of the Oracles collection.
Bones Ache With Remembrance explores the ways memory embeds itself within the body long after language has failed to contain it. A pale torso emerges from a mass of intertwined roots, suggesting a figure simultaneously growing from and bound to the histories beneath it. The image speaks to inheritance, grief, identity, and the invisible weight carried across generations.
Created as part of the Oracles series, the painting examines how personal identity is shaped by forces that precede conscious choice. Throughout the collection, figures appear alongside symbolic forms that function as manifestations of psychological and ancestral influence. Here, the roots serve as both foundation and tether. They nourish the figure while also anchoring it to experiences, stories, and losses that continue to exert influence from below the surface.
The title suggests that memory is not merely intellectual. Certain experiences become embodied, residing in posture, instinct, longing, and emotional response. The work reflects on the ways people carry traces of family histories, relationships, places, and transformations long after those moments have passed. Through its restrained symbolism and contemplative realism, Bones Ache With Remembrance invites reflection on what remains within us after time has moved on.