Rebirth, 24″x30″ oil on wood. The Last reminisce of her sinewed hand, transformed to the claw of the carrying spirit. It’s a rebirth with weary steps, disassociating from the former, and awakening to the new. A new life the travelled soul shall come, and the memories of the carnage disassembled, fading to the abstraction. The soul will take flight.
Be a Sunflower: Be a Sun Flower, 30″ x40″, oil on wood. Sunflowers ignite a fire to seek light and grow, even when darkness looms, death surrounds. To be like the sunflower is to embody the eagerness in seizing the sun and make the soul vibrate. Turn towards the light, be like a sunflower and bloom with warmth and new height of resilience in your heart.Germination: 30″x40″, oil on wood.
Suspended in water, nourished by green, pulled by the gravity of darkness, the seeds of life began to germinate. With a bit of light, a touch of air, and clarity of the eyes, the spirit rises through, offering a new beginning.
Masquerade: 24″x30″ oil on wood.Aesthetic Harmony: 36″x36″ oil on wood. The golden ratio encompasses aspects of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and the topology of space-time. The aesthetically pleasing appearance of this law translate our perceptions of the natural world into art, music, and structures. The Fibonacci spiral of the golden ratio is the configuration of least energy path of movement in nature. This energy flow reinforces the individual purpose in life and spirals towards others and the surroundings. As an artist, I’m inspired by beauty of our natural surroundings in the form of lines, shapes, and the interplay to create harmonious flow and unity. This painting explores the aesthetic harmony of the golden ratio and the Fibonacci spiral and the interplay with the human subject. When energy flows well, happiest, passion, and beauty are realized.
Follow Hope: 30” x 40” oil on wood. Hope takes many forms, an open path to a different place, a different direction, or transcendence to a new state of mind. It is as mysterious and elusive as it is clear and plentiful. It is a feeling we must grow to cultivate. It is the window of opportunity or new light for reassurance that the possibilities are endless. Hope is the animating force of life that keeps its breath and refuses stagnation. See Hope moves. See Hope’s horizon and the her path forward. Follow Hope.Helen: 36″x36″ oil on canvasThe Letter: 24″x 30″ oil on woodA Portrait of Vibrancy: 18” x 24″ oil on woodPegasus and Aurora: 48″x60″ oil on canvasI’m Boundless: 18″ x 24″ oil on wood panelInspiration Flow: 20″ x 20″ oil on wood.Billions: 30″ x 40″ oil on wood. He is worshipped by billions. Yet it’s a face no one knows exactly. This monochromatic portrait of Jesus Christ explores a portrait of the most recognizable face known to man, and its effect on the viewers through the lens of history, academic, emotion, and spirituality.Psyche, Resolute: 36” x 48” oil on wood. In Greek Mythology, Psyche overcomes the forth task placed upon her by jealous Aphrodite in order to regain the love of Cupid. She must obtain a beauty ointment from Persephone, queen of the underworld. Psyche is well aware that no mortal ever returns from such a journey. In despair, she believes that the only route is to kill herself. She has made attempts before after losing the love of Cupid. But there is another path, one that tests her focus and devotion to the cause. Three times in the underworld she must harden her heart to pity and rejects pleas for help from creatures of the underworld. She strengthens her soul and maintains her focus, and loses all earthy attachments and overcomes the fear of death. She returns to the living with a rejuvenating spirit, a renewed soul, and feeling resolute. At times, to push pass our own “underworld” we need to maintain our focus in healing, achieving, and transcending to a state of strength. Psyche opens the box to obtain the beauty and deep sleep envelopes her….but that’s another part of the story with a happy ending.Passion of an Artist: 30”x 40” oil on wood. The artist carries her secret, hidden in her work, revealed only through her eyes for those who can part the disguise. She mixes with her warm colors of merging ardor. Her view imprints a blushed passion on her in hues she welcomes, and she indulges in the moment of continuous glaze that stirs passion in her heart. Her skillful hand executes the vision that passes from her eyes, interprets in her mind, and softly engraves in her heart. The story she wants to tell is carefully constructed in colors on the canvas, but in her heart, it’s a story of a secretive love.Joan of Arc, The Immortal Spirit: 24″ x 36″ oil on wood. Joan of Arc is arguably the most famous and celebrated woman in West European history. She led the French army to victory over the English during the Hundred Years’ War. Her world was one of conflict, tragedy and turmoil. Known as Saint Joan of Arc and the Maid of Orleans, the young maiden reaches a level of legendary status today that truly cannot be depicted in a single piece of art. “Joan of Arc, the immortal Spirit” is a portrait that embodies the divine visions and the holy voices in form of chaotic colors of darkness, heaven, and blood descending upon her short life. Joan’s holy calling and relentless determination merge her with the cross. The painting fragments Joan as a soldier of a physical being with flesh and blood; the collective of self-confident, innocence, emotion, and beauty; and the abstraction of a saint, a spiritual being, and a higher power. With constant and palpable company of divinity, she achieved extraordinary things in form feminine strength and authority that was lacking in medieval women. She took a moral path of ignoring her social rank and her gender that was ahead of her time. Today, she serves as potent paragon of the human subject at its most truthful and radical embodiment, a visible manifestations of our aspirations as well as our limitations, and as the center of endless stories that transcend her spirit to immortality. The Essential Conversations: 20″x 20″oil on wood. Between the breakdown of society and ignorance of the problems we face, resides a space call conversation, where truths are exchanged. It’s not a space for misidentification, exaggeration, attention grabbing, and simplification. Only through honest and in-depth identification of the problems can problems be solved. We are equipped with the knowledge, the resources, and the ability to reason, and the mindfulness to hold back judging quickly or follow the trends, the mass, and our genetic tendency for tribalism. It’s essential that the lines of communications for intellectual dialogues are open, democratic, and free of societal fear and condemnation. Only through successful open conversations can society transcend to a unifying understanding of the problems we face and the solutions we crave. It is through attention to evidences, confronting our bias and ego, and setting aside our politics and religious beliefs, that ideas and reasons can flourish to bring us to a better place for humanity.
Portrait of Coleman Hughes: writer, columnist, musician, and the host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman.Cocoon: 24″ x 30 oil on linen. She creates a world of armor, a cocoon of comfort and safety. Withdrawing from harshness, putting up walls around the tender heart and exhausted mind. Without facing reality, finding the voice and reconciling to who she is and wishes to be, she is withdrawn into a shelter of isolation from the world. The toughness of the armor is the barrier of problems. She is confined, lives and breathes on for the purpose of controlling outcomes. The degree of her armor is proportionate to the need for protection from her sensitive heart. Freedom from the armor is proportional to the beauty she can give to the world. There’s a light of hope that glows at her, an invitation to transform the state of consciousness from one dimension to another, undergoing a deep experience that leads to a whole new capacity and perception. The butterfly is a life force, a new possibility past the feelings of despair and mental entrapment, and triggers new ideas, a new hope. Her face glows, exposing the beauty of her soul that is ready to fly. Wrapped in an armor of cocoon, she soon emerges in a new form, undefeated, free, and unleashing the inner self taking in the beauty of the world, and breathing out the beauty of her soul.
The Fall of Arachne: 36″x60″ oil on canvas. Elements gathered around her coalescing into appendages, making eight prior to the transformation to the arachne she is to become. She falls into a dream state at peace in the bed of dark water liberated from the awareness of the painful metamorphosis, a gift granted out of pity. Her cheeks and body, the last sign of a flesh pink, grew pale. Soon enough, she will forever live her life spinning and weaving, a grotesque reflection of her former beauty as one of the most proud and masterful weaver of Greece, only to cross path and insulted the goddess Athena in a weaving art contest. Transforming into the first spider by Athena, Arachne will be cursed to live her passion doing what she does best without the benefit of her former beauty.
Nike Comforting Defeat: 30″ x 40″ oil on canvas. Nike is the goddess of victory, in war and in competition. In her state of awakening, she comforts the defeated: “To the victor go the spoils.”The Artist’s Journey: 18″x30″ oil on woodResilient and Free: 18″ X 24″ oil on linen. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Freedom is the most precious possession. The sanctity of human values, freedom and security must be preserved and protected under an umbrella of moral duty and a global order. No one, let alone, one man, should have the absolute decision on the faith of millions and determine their nationality, security, and right of existence. It is men’s moral duty to unite and face the fatigues of the fight to be free from tyranny and the decimation of life. There are times that try our souls, and it is in these moments that set our potential as human beings. Unity is the strength. Determination is the weapon. Millions of years of the evolving spirit to be free will not be changed in a short span of time by a small speck of one stained man. The united force of moral principles shall triumph over the conquering force of killing soldiers. Live resiliently and be free.The Rescue: 30″ x 40″ oil on wood. Amphitrite and the Siren: 30″ x 60″ oil on canvasPandora’s Legacy: 24″x36″ oil on wood. Pandora received a jar as a wedding gift from Zeus with the intention of punishing man, a retaliation for the gift of fire mankind received from the Titan, Prometheus. Pandora was instructed to never open the jar, but the efforts to tame her curiosity failed and she opened it releasing pain and suffering. However, she closed the jar with hope for humanity still remains inside. The legacy of Pandora’s jar is filled with hope and vitality. A girl, guided by dreams and determination, is about to embark on a journey of discovery in her world of uncertainty and chaos.Athena and Aegis: 30″ x 40″ oil on wood.Colors of Penelope: 16″ x 20″ oil on wood panelNike Comforting Defeat: 30″ x 40″ oil on canvas. Nike is the goddess of victory, in war and in competition. In her state of awakening, she comforts the defeated: “To the victor go the spoils.”Warriors of Serpent Island: 36″ x 48″, gouache, acrylic on canvas. Of the scattered wasted bones of distant relatives embedded in the fiery stones, two warriors of Serpent Island stand high in battle, one is of human kind and another of a serpent hybrid. Determined to stand victorious, they tread through the organic land, side by side, clad in skin, bones and metal, clearing path of the violent thirsted creatures born of mutated waste.Tamer of Dragons: 30″ x 40″ oil on wood.Awakening: 18″ x 24″ oil on wood The Gaze: 18” x 24″ oil on wood. An unidentifiable girl glaring at the viewer only materializes as the viewer returns the look, but only if it’s long enough with interest to makes the connection. The painting is organic when captured by the gaze of the viewer insofar as he remains a spectator gazing at the painting. The gaze is the vehicle for silent communication between the viewer and the viewed. It’s words without sound; it’s personal without being personal. Antigone: 24″ x 36″ oil on canvas. In Greek mythology, Antigone was the daughter of an incestuous union of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. Her tale is one of tragedy, strength and courage.Illumination of Strength: 30″ x 48″ oil on canvas. The self, wrapped within sheets of doubts, emerges and transcend the spirit to physical form of empowerment, and impels unrepentant desire to illuminate.
Vasapira, The Uncounted: 18″x 24″ oil on wood. This queen renews life with no bounds where death has apparently devoted the body. She pursues nature in its darkness, conceiving the horrors of secret toil. She carries a crown of horns from the decaying elements of untold years. After feeding, the degraded and wasted once again flourish, filling the capillaries with abundance of life force that rises to the surface of the skin to fill the face with the most needed texture of the living, blossoming the cheeks that had grown pale. Her senses once again gratify and refresh by the taste of life’s nutrients, and she returns to a sight of uncanny beauty. The blood countess is the master of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter!
