Ordinary Demons and Household Saints

This work speaks to the birth of a new nexus of experience. The overlay of gesture and expression map the evolution our physical and spiritual selves undertake as we work through acceptance and rejection of periods of forced change. The figure is lost in a fictional jungle with the magnolia flower, a symbol of both impermanent fragility and endurance (it has a fossil record of 60 million years). In this idealized setting of beauty and hidden danger, the form synthesizes, morphs and contorts in an undulating exchange between tension and release, conflict and peace, ultimately forging a new version of ourselves. I seek to visualize loss, grief, growth and the acceptance of change.