Living Systems · 18 works
A field guide to engineered pareidolia.
I make paintings about inheritance — about what a body carries when it is no longer able to carry a child. The orca taught me how to hold this.
She does not recede. She becomes the center.Continue reading the statement
Pareidolia Chromatic
2022–2024 · Acrylic, ink, 24k gold leaf, mixed media on canvas
The origin — dense chromatic biomorphic fields where every surface is occupied. Creatures, faces, and anatomies hidden in the composition, visible only through sustained looking.
Pareidolia Chromatic — Early Study
2022–2023 · Acrylic ink and mixed media on canvas
An early Pareidolia Chromatic — the same maximalist vocabulary, before the striped ground arrived. Recognition through repetition.
Pareidolia Chromatic — Coral
2022–2024 · Acrylic, ink, 24k gold leaf, mixed media on canvas
Coral, teal, violet — the chromatic field at its most aquatic. Forms emerge from the dense surface like reef life seen through water.
Pareidolia Chromatic II
2022–2024 · Acrylic, ink, 24k gold leaf, mixed media on canvas
A tighter, more volatile chromatic mass — held inside vibrating pink, yellow, and green stripes. Pressure inside pattern.
Pareidolia in Blue
2024–2025 · Acrylic ink, 24k gold leaf, thread, encaustic on heavyweight cotton canvas
The flagship. Thread-like lines move through the canvas as nervous systems connecting biomorphic shadow forms. The blue is the depth. The thread is the self, tracing its own connections through the dark.
Pareidolia in Blue I
2023–2025 · Acrylic on canvas
A single white circle at the centre holds everything in view — the eye of consciousness. The dense biomorphic field orbits around it. The orange-gold striped ground beneath creates a warm vibration against the deep blue.
Pareidolia in Blue II
2023–2025 · Acrylic on canvas
The Mandala companion — the same Jungian territory, a different orbit. The eye sees all the forms without being absorbed by them.
Held in Distance I
2026 · Mixed media, resin, acrylic, and 24k gold leaf on canvas
The moment before separation. Circular forms gather tightly — cells, coral, bubbles, memory, or emotional pressure — and hold their position on an atmospheric cerulean ground.
Convergence I
2026 · Mixed media, acrylic, resin, and 24k gold leaf on canvas
It separates from its origin, but still carries the memory of where it came from. Drift, movement, transition — the cluster reconfiguring itself across distance.
Origin / Release I
2026 · Mixed media, resin, acrylic, and 24k gold leaf on canvas
This is separation as continuity, not rupture. Small resin spheres move across a pale field like traces, satellites, breaths, or memories.
Origin / Threshold I
2026 · Mixed media on canvas
Between holding and letting go. A moment of transformation where structures loosen, boundaries blur, and something new begins to take form.
Origin / Mass I
2026 · Encaustic sphere, 24k gold leaf, acrylic on canvas with dimensional ground
Mass made three-dimensional. A textured sphere holds gold-leaf splashes — a body before separation, gathered and dense, set against a cobalt-blue field.
Cerulean Sphere
2026 · Encaustic sphere, acrylic, and hand-painted circles on stretched canvas
Biomimicry made three-dimensional. A hand-formed encaustic sphere — permanently embedded in a field of hundreds of hand-painted translucent circles. Scale and variety within a single system.
Cerulean Sphere II
2026 · Encaustic sphere, acrylic, and hand-painted circles on stretched canvas
The Cerulean Sphere reconfigured — lighter, more atmospheric, the sphere repositioned and the field opened. Same body, different breath.
Jellyfish
2026 · Encaustic sphere, thread, tassels, and 24k gold accents on canvas
A living organism, dimensional. A green-teal sphere wrapped in white thread netting; blue thread fringe with gold beads falling like tentacles. The sphere as body, the thread as nerve.
Jellyfish — Detail
2026 · Encaustic sphere, thread, 24k gold accents
Surface as terrain — cobalt sphere, gold leaf, thread fringe at close range. The body of the work made tactile.
Thread on Black I
2024–2026 · Wool & cotton thread, dimensional thread forms, tassels on canvas
The circle returned in thread. Colorful yarn wound by hand into circle segments on a deep black ground — each zone a different colour, each edge fraying into the black in a soft, living fringe. The black is not background; it is the shadow from which every colour emerges.
Thread on Black II
2024–2026 · Wool & cotton thread, dimensional thread forms on canvas
Closing the series — smaller, denser, the circles overlapping like a quiet planetarium. Two tassels hang below like a held breath.