Prism

An original mixed media artwork, rich with surreal symbolism and tactile intrigue. Each layer is meticulously built upon a heavy-duty stretched canvas using a myriad of materials, inviting the viewer into a world of texture and depth. Created with professional archival paints and sealed for protection, this piece is designed to endure. The included collage elements are printed with archival inks on fine art papers, ensuring the vibrancy lasts for generations.

20x16

Acrylic paint, acrylic pouring medium, heavy gel medium, gesso, Pebeo Prism paint, Pebeo Fantasy Moon paint, phosphorescent paint, iridescent inks, alcohol inks, oxidative inks, distress inks, walnut ink, India ink, colorshift paint, ceramic paint, stained glass paint (Pebeo Vitrail), spray paint, watercolor, oil pastels, soft pastels, charcoal, distress crayons, mica powder, glitter, wax medium, tissue paper, archival photo collage, digitally altered imagery printed on fine art paper, found objects (buttons, chains, beads, jewelry, gems), vintage ephemera, newspaper, foils, vinyl, plastic, string, stretched canvas ```

The honeycomb structures speak to the sacred geometry of labor and community—the architecture bees build to contain transformation, from pollen to gold. These hexagonal chambers suggest both cellular biology and spiritual order, the underlying patterns that govern growth and decay. The coral branches reach like neural pathways or bronchial trees, reminding us that all systems of flow and exchange mirror one another across scales. Insects preserved in the composition become totems of metamorphosis, creatures who understand the alchemy of cocoon and emergence. Buttons scattered throughout serve as portals or sealed chambers, circular thresholds between states of being. The chains reference bondage and connection simultaneously—what tethers us also links us to something beyond ourselves. The dominant blue suggests both drowning and baptism, the death-rebirth duality of water symbolism. Pink coral formations evoke the body's interior landscapes, the hidden architecture of organs and emotion. This is a painting of the liminal zone where light breaks apart, where unity fractures into spectrum, where wholeness becomes visible only through fragmentation. ```

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.