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Lucidity
16" × 12"
Oil on Aluminum
2025
Private Collection
A human hand rises from darkness toward the suspended skull of a rat. Stripped of context and environment, both forms exist within a quiet symbolic space where gesture becomes the primary language of the painting. The hand appears neither grasping nor relinquishing, but suspended in a moment of recognition. Above it, the skull hovers with an almost ceremonial presence, transforming a physical remnant into an object of contemplation rather than mortality alone.
Created as part of the Oracles series, the painting explores the relationship between perception and truth. Throughout the collection, symbolic objects function as vessels for examining the structures through which meaning is constructed. Here, the rabbit skull serves as a symbol of impermanence, vulnerability, and the stripping away of illusion. Removed from life and reduced to its essential architecture, it reveals what remains after appearances have fallen away. The hand beneath it suggests the human impulse to understand, interpret, and confront what is often hidden from view.
Lucidity reflects on moments of clarity that arrive when comforting narratives can no longer be maintained. The title points toward a state of perception unclouded by wishful thinking or inherited assumptions. Rather than presenting mortality as something fearful, the painting suggests that deeper understanding often emerges through direct confrontation with reality. Through simplicity and restraint, the work considers how wisdom may arise not from acquiring more certainty, but from seeing clearly what has been present all along.
Lucidity
16" × 12"
Oil on Aluminum
2025
Private Collection
A human hand rises from darkness toward the suspended skull of a rat. Stripped of context and environment, both forms exist within a quiet symbolic space where gesture becomes the primary language of the painting. The hand appears neither grasping nor relinquishing, but suspended in a moment of recognition. Above it, the skull hovers with an almost ceremonial presence, transforming a physical remnant into an object of contemplation rather than mortality alone.
Created as part of the Oracles series, the painting explores the relationship between perception and truth. Throughout the collection, symbolic objects function as vessels for examining the structures through which meaning is constructed. Here, the rabbit skull serves as a symbol of impermanence, vulnerability, and the stripping away of illusion. Removed from life and reduced to its essential architecture, it reveals what remains after appearances have fallen away. The hand beneath it suggests the human impulse to understand, interpret, and confront what is often hidden from view.
Lucidity reflects on moments of clarity that arrive when comforting narratives can no longer be maintained. The title points toward a state of perception unclouded by wishful thinking or inherited assumptions. Rather than presenting mortality as something fearful, the painting suggests that deeper understanding often emerges through direct confrontation with reality. Through simplicity and restraint, the work considers how wisdom may arise not from acquiring more certainty, but from seeing clearly what has been present all along.