Above: Surprise, Surprise No. 7 is built around tension between structure and disruption. A deep blue vertical form creates a powerful architectural presence, like a wall, dam, geological formation, or immense folded surface resisting the forces moving through it. The image carries the feeling of water meeting rock: currents pushing through narrow spaces, waves breaking around stone, or a river cutting through an otherwise immovable landscape.
Across this structure, organic black marks appear to grow through cracks and interruptions, suggesting plants emerging through pavement, roots breaking through foundations, or life finding pathways through seemingly permanent materials. The drawing creates the feeling of something alive pressing against the boundaries of the world around it. A small form near the center seems almost like a hand or paw holding onto the structure, becoming a moment of resistance, attachment, or transformation.
Below: The reverse surface reveals the hidden intensity beneath the darker exterior. Fluorescent pinks, reds, and flashes of yellow ignite through the translucent paper, transforming the work from a geological or architectural structure into something glowing from within.
The image shifts between explosion and emergence: a shattered building, a volcanic event, a city viewed through neon light, or aninterior space suddenly illuminated. Like looking into a crystal formation, the hidden colors reveal an internal world that was always present but invisible from the other side.
Reflection: Surprise, Surprise No. 7 explores the relationship between forces that appear permanent and the unpredictable forms that emerge around them. The work draws from experiences of dramatic landscapes—from volcanic rock formations and mountain environments to the immense presence of water, weather, and geological time.
The image recalls the experience of encountering landscapes where scale becomes overwhelming: black volcanic stone, snow, sudden storms, and environments that reveal how small human bodies are within larger natural systems. It also reflects a fascination with materials that contain hidden structures, like mineral specimens where dark surfaces can hold unexpected flashes of color and complexity.
The work’s drama comes from restraint. Built from relatively simple materials, it creates the sensation of immense forces moving through space. Like a dream, a memory, or a moment captured between frames of animation, Surprise, Surprise No. 7 holds a world at the instant before it changes.
Above: Surprise, Surprise No. 7 is built around tension between structure and disruption. A deep blue vertical form creates a powerful architectural presence, like a wall, dam, geological formation, or immense folded surface resisting the forces moving through it. The image carries the feeling of water meeting rock: currents pushing through narrow spaces, waves breaking around stone, or a river cutting through an otherwise immovable landscape.
Across this structure, organic black marks appear to grow through cracks and interruptions, suggesting plants emerging through pavement, roots breaking through foundations, or life finding pathways through seemingly permanent materials. The drawing creates the feeling of something alive pressing against the boundaries of the world around it. A small form near the center seems almost like a hand or paw holding onto the structure, becoming a moment of resistance, attachment, or transformation.
Below: The reverse surface reveals the hidden intensity beneath the darker exterior. Fluorescent pinks, reds, and flashes of yellow ignite through the translucent paper, transforming the work from a geological or architectural structure into something glowing from within.
The image shifts between explosion and emergence: a shattered building, a volcanic event, a city viewed through neon light, or aninterior space suddenly illuminated. Like looking into a crystal formation, the hidden colors reveal an internal world that was always present but invisible from the other side.
Reflection: Surprise, Surprise No. 7 explores the relationship between forces that appear permanent and the unpredictable forms that emerge around them. The work draws from experiences of dramatic landscapes—from volcanic rock formations and mountain environments to the immense presence of water, weather, and geological time.
The image recalls the experience of encountering landscapes where scale becomes overwhelming: black volcanic stone, snow, sudden storms, and environments that reveal how small human bodies are within larger natural systems. It also reflects a fascination with materials that contain hidden structures, like mineral specimens where dark surfaces can hold unexpected flashes of color and complexity.
The work’s drama comes from restraint. Built from relatively simple materials, it creates the sensation of immense forces moving through space. Like a dream, a memory, or a moment captured between frames of animation, Surprise, Surprise No. 7 holds a world at the instant before it changes.