On the Edge of Becoming

Somewhere between a body and a landscape, the eye stops being sure which one it sees. That uncertainty is the subject of this work.

The silhouette of a woman lies like terrain. Her body rises into a hill — almost a mountain — and her face, seen in profile, completes the line of the horizon. Nose, lips, chin: from a few steps away they read as ridges against the sky. Above her spreads an open blue, and out of it falls a hard, sharp light that carves her body from the darkness below.

Look at the single line that runs from her forehead along the whole length of the figure — it is one unbroken horizon. I did not draw a woman in a landscape; the woman is the landscape. Where she ends and the earth begins is a question the work refuses to answer.

There is something primal in this scene. Something is happening here — at the very edge of creation: the first light striking the first ground, or a body at rest becoming a world. Some see dawn. Some see the moment just after breath returns. All of these are right; the work holds them.

This print belongs to a cycle in which the human figure and the elements exchange places — alongside Gravity of the Unseen, Her Horizon, His Horizon and Orbit of Presence. Each work in the cycle asks the same quiet question at a different scale: are we in the landscape, or is the landscape in us?

Offset print and acrylic paint · 61 x 42 cm · 2021 · signed/edition 10 pc· Certificate of authenticity · 400$, shipping included · Shipped in a tube