This original 30” x 24” oil painting utilizes a variety of textures, patterns, and gestural brushstrokes to define a figure reaching down into a medley of wildflowers. “To grasp at impermanence” is to try and hold onto something that is fleeting. A flower, a moment in time, a person, a memory. This painting reflects upon reaching out towards something that is shifting and ephemeral, yet captivating enough to keep trying.

My interest in figurative painting continues to permeate this body of work. The figure is both present and simultaneously disappearing, merging with his environment while loosely holding his own space and form. His universe is shifting and melding, mediated by the presence of a vertically-ruled pattern that distorts spatial and optical perception.

The painting has a clean 1.5” wooden edge, and is currently unframed.

Oil on panel, 30” x 24”, 2022