Prism

This work explores the threshold consciousness of transformation—that suspended state where identity dissolves into its component frequencies before reconstituting as something new. The underwater realm serves as metaphor for the subconscious, that fluid space where logic gives way to symbol and connection operates through resonance rather than reason. The prismatic quality addresses how trauma, memory, and profound experience scatter coherent narrative into emotional wavelengths that we must learn to perceive individually before we can reintegrate them. The piece questions what we lose when light passes through us—how experience refracts the self, bending some aspects toward visibility while casting others into shadow. The collision of marine biology, insect anatomy, and geometric order suggests the universality of pattern—how the same archetypal structures emerge across wildly different contexts, hinting at an underlying unity beneath apparent diversity. The abundance of texture and collage creates a tactile archaeology, inviting viewers to trace the layers of accumulated experience, to feel how meaning builds through accretion and revision. This painting offers both immersion and examination, asking us to surrender to the depths while simultaneously studying what lives there.