Fields and Fables
Open Window, Realized:
Painted directly onto the wall, using a VR headset to trace the version I designed in Machine Muses and Mischief. Same window, built twice.
Stories don't always need words. The name covers the two halves of this collection: the fields are the landscapes, ponds, coastlines, and gardens I keep coming back to, and the fables are the parts that aren't quite real, a dragon coiled on the page, a window painted onto a wall that opens onto somewhere else. Everything here sits at the edge of illustration and folklore, built the way a story is built, one detail leading to the next until something true emerges from something imagined.
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False Wall: That's not brick. It's acrylic paint on a plain wood panel, and the lantern's the only real thing in the shot.
Hollow Water: Oil on canvas. The kind of quiet that only shows up after the sun's gone.
Keeper of the Coil: Colored pencil, built scale by scale until something with a pulse showed up on the page.
Koi in Motion: Oil on Acrylic. Less about the fish, more about the water moving around them.
Low Tide, Last Light: Colored pencil. Some evenings only need two people and a horizon.
Shoreline, Watercolor: Paint loose enough to let the water do some of the work.
Still Life, Loud Color: Acrylic on canvas. Restraint wasn't really the goal here.
Two Koi: Colored pencil. A pair chasing each other in a circle that never quite closes.
Where the Trees Meet the Tide: Oil on canvas, built from a coastline that stuck in memory long after the visit ended.