Interior Activity brings together a group of abstract paintings exploring internal movement, residual tension, and quiet instability. The works do not depict inner states, but register their activity through gesture, layering, and interruption. Each painting operates as an open field where movement circulates without settling.
Reaching the Core is an ongoing collection that explores movement toward an internal center without assuming its stability or resolution. The works engage with the act of approaching rather than arriving, tracing gestures that circle, hesitate, press inward, or disperse before any form can settle.
Rather than depicting a core as a fixed point, the paintings reveal it as a shifting zone of tension, density, and resistance. Layers accumulate and erode simultaneously, allowing fragments, interruptions, and residual marks to coexist. What emerges is not clarity, but proximity — a sustained attention to what insists beneath the surface.
This collection remains open by nature. Each work operates as a partial approach, acknowledging that the core is never fully reached, only engaged through repeated gestures, pauses, and recalibrations. The paintings hold this ongoing movement, where form is continuously tested and reformed without closure.
The Energy of Being is an exploratory series of small-format acrylic paintings that capture states of presence rather than representations. Each work holds a moment where gesture slows, color breathes, and energy settles into form. Created as an accessible entry point into the artist’s practice, these intimate canvases invite a quiet, personal encounter with the act of being.
The Energy of Being 1, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
10 W x 10 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 230
The Energy of Being 2, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
10 W x 10 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 230
The Energy of Being 3, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
8 W x 8 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 190
The Energy of Being 4, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
8 W x 8 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 190
The Energy of Being 5, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 6 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 150
The Energy of Being 6, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 6 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 150
The Energy of Being 7, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
10 W x 10 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 230
The Energy of Being 8, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
10 W x 10 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 230
The Energy of Being 9, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
8 W x 8 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 190
The Energy of Being 10, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
8 W x 8 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 190
The Energy of Being 11, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 6 H x 1.5 D in.
$ 150
The Calling is an exploratory series of small-format acrylic paintings centered on inner tension and emergence. Through layered gestures and warm, vibrating tones, each work captures the moment where something insists without yet taking form. Created as an accessible entry into the artist’s practice, these intimate pieces invite collectors to sit with the sensation of a call before it becomes direction.
The Calling 1, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 2, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 3, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 4, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 5, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 6, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 7, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 8, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 9, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 10, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 11, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
The Calling 12, 2025
acrylic, soft pastels, colored pencil, pencil.
6 W x 8 H x 0.75 D in.
$ 170
Remembrance explores the persistence of internal movement after an initial convergence has taken place. The painting does not depict memory as recollection, but as a residual force, something that continues to act beneath the surface, even after form has shifted.
Gestural lines gather and re-emerge around a dense central zone, suggesting a return rather than a progression. Layers accumulate without resolving, allowing marks to overlap, hesitate, and repeat. The surface holds these repetitions as traces, not as symbols, maintaining tension without narrative closure.
Situated within the ongoing collection Reaching the Core, Remembrance approaches the core not as a destination, but as an active site of recurrence. The work remains open, holding the quiet intensity of what insists, lingers, and refuses to fully dissipate.
Remembrance 7, 2025
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