Breaking Through (2025) Contemporary and umber describe late-season foliage

and umber describe late-season foliage

The scene collapses time — the living and the legendary sharing the same water — suggesting that history isn’t past

Horses push through wind and weather with a quiet sense of urgency

A dusty street

raising the question of whether the body is being held

Breaking Through (2025) Contemporary and umber describe late-season foliageOil on canvas 30 x 40 in A single arm breaches the picture plane to touch the reclining figure, collapsing the space between viewer and subject. The gesture hovers between tenderness and control, raising the question of whether the body is being held, guided, or claimed. The work confronts the uneasy boundary between observer and observed the moment when looking becomes contact. Provenance Artists Studio