Closer
This painting is a profound exploration of memory, death, and transformation—an intimate meditation on life beyond the physical realm. Created in the spring of 2018 amid the harrowing moment when my immediate family faced two daunting diagnoses, Closer emerged as the visual embodiment of grief, anxiety, and silent prayers. Named after the Joy Division album that echoes themes of finality and reflection, this work reveals my personal understanding of death not as a rigid, impenetrable end, but as a serene passage. The classicizing mausoleum shape, rendered with transparency and calm, reveals death’s true nature: a transition rather than a closure. In this space, life endures in connection with the divine, inviting a profound sense of rest and peace. This painting brings collectors a contemplative encounter with transformation, where memory and mortality intertwine in a timeless dialogue. Death is not a solid, finite, locked chamber. Death’s truth is transition.
Oil on canvas, 72 x 46”
This painting is a profound exploration of memory, death, and transformation—an intimate meditation on life beyond the physical realm. Created in the spring of 2018 amid the harrowing moment when my immediate family faced two daunting diagnoses, Closer emerged as the visual embodiment of grief, anxiety, and silent prayers. Named after the Joy Division album that echoes themes of finality and reflection, this work reveals my personal understanding of death not as a rigid, impenetrable end, but as a serene passage. The classicizing mausoleum shape, rendered with transparency and calm, reveals death’s true nature: a transition rather than a closure. In this space, life endures in connection with the divine, inviting a profound sense of rest and peace. This painting brings collectors a contemplative encounter with transformation, where memory and mortality intertwine in a timeless dialogue. Death is not a solid, finite, locked chamber. Death’s truth is transition.
Oil on canvas, 72 x 46”
This painting is a profound exploration of memory, death, and transformation—an intimate meditation on life beyond the physical realm. Created in the spring of 2018 amid the harrowing moment when my immediate family faced two daunting diagnoses, Closer emerged as the visual embodiment of grief, anxiety, and silent prayers. Named after the Joy Division album that echoes themes of finality and reflection, this work reveals my personal understanding of death not as a rigid, impenetrable end, but as a serene passage. The classicizing mausoleum shape, rendered with transparency and calm, reveals death’s true nature: a transition rather than a closure. In this space, life endures in connection with the divine, inviting a profound sense of rest and peace. This painting brings collectors a contemplative encounter with transformation, where memory and mortality intertwine in a timeless dialogue. Death is not a solid, finite, locked chamber. Death’s truth is transition.
Oil on canvas, 72 x 46”
