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Duality
16" × 12"
Oil on wood
2025
Private Collection
Duality examines the tension between opposing forces that coexist within every human life. A hand balances beneath a split pomegranate, creating a suspended moment between choice and consequence, wholeness and fracture, potential and experience. The fruit, long associated with fertility, transformation, mortality, and fate, becomes a symbolic vessel for the contradictions that shape identity.
Within the Oracles series, symbolic objects serve as reflections of the unseen structures that influence how we understand ourselves. Here, the pomegranate's divided form suggests that growth often emerges through division rather than certainty. What appears broken reveals an interior richness, while the gesture below implies both offering and restraint, reaching and releasing.
The painting draws upon traditions of mythological and symbolic realism while remaining rooted in contemporary questions of selfhood. Rather than presenting duality as conflict alone, the work proposes that opposing truths may exist simultaneously. Strength and vulnerability, permanence and change, loss and abundance become inseparable parts of a larger whole. Through its restrained composition and archetypal imagery, Duality invites reflection on the paradoxes that define human experience.
Duality
16" × 12"
Oil on wood
2025
Private Collection
Duality examines the tension between opposing forces that coexist within every human life. A hand balances beneath a split pomegranate, creating a suspended moment between choice and consequence, wholeness and fracture, potential and experience. The fruit, long associated with fertility, transformation, mortality, and fate, becomes a symbolic vessel for the contradictions that shape identity.
Within the Oracles series, symbolic objects serve as reflections of the unseen structures that influence how we understand ourselves. Here, the pomegranate's divided form suggests that growth often emerges through division rather than certainty. What appears broken reveals an interior richness, while the gesture below implies both offering and restraint, reaching and releasing.
The painting draws upon traditions of mythological and symbolic realism while remaining rooted in contemporary questions of selfhood. Rather than presenting duality as conflict alone, the work proposes that opposing truths may exist simultaneously. Strength and vulnerability, permanence and change, loss and abundance become inseparable parts of a larger whole. Through its restrained composition and archetypal imagery, Duality invites reflection on the paradoxes that define human experience.