Cello
2016
Oil on canvas
Approximately 18 x 24 inches
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Cello is an abstract exploration of emotional fragmentation and cohesion, articulated through gestural form, chromatic tension, and spatial ambiguity. The composition suggests a body in flux, simultaneously holding and releasing structure, where rupture is not resolved but sustained. Primary colors operate both symbolically and materially, reinforcing a sense of psychological immediacy while resisting narrative closure.

Music functions as a conceptual and procedural framework within my practice. Rather than serving as direct illustration, sound informs tempo, repetition, and compositional rhythm, shaping the physical act of painting and the emotional register of the work. In Cello, music becomes an organizing force that stabilizes vulnerability, allowing dissonance and harmony to coexist. The painting positions sound as an invisible architecture, one that mediates between interior emotional states and their material expression on the canvas.

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