Between What We See explores the uncertain space between what is present and what we perceive. Layers of turquoise, violet, weathered brown, softened pink, yellow, and muted green drift into one another, creating forms that seem recognizable for a moment before dissolving back into abstraction.
There is no single image waiting to be discovered. Instead, the painting changes as the eye travels across it. A shape may resemble a figure, a landscape, a memory, or nothing identifiable at all. What appears depends upon the viewer—and perhaps upon what the viewer brings with them.
Created intuitively with acrylic ink, the pigments were allowed to move, mingle, stain, and settle without being forced into a predetermined composition. Some areas remain luminous and open while others become shadowed, layered, and weathered. Those contrasts create the sensation of something continually revealing and concealing itself.
For me, this work is about perception. We often believe we are simply seeing what is in front of us, yet our experiences, memories, emotions, and expectations are always participating in what we see. Two people can stand before the same thing and encounter entirely different truths.
Between What We See invites the viewer to linger rather than search for a correct interpretation. Allow the forms to shift. Notice what your eye finds first—and what begins to emerge only after you have been looking for a while.
11 × 14 inches • Acrylic Ink on Flat Canvas Panel • Original Abstract Artwork • One of a Kind
