9″ x 12″ – Oil on Canvas
Awake is a 9″ x 12″ portrait oil painting on canvas. Do you notice the two portraits? One with her eyes closed and the other with her eyes open and staring into the light above her. For me, upon further reflection, the portrait appears to shift between a waking and a sleeping state. There is an immediacy to the mark and a spontaneity to the painting that I miss in my other work and wanted to capture here.
The composition is derived from multiple poses and reassembled through paint. This piece is indicative of my current body of work conceived from a long standing interest in animation and the visual effect of movement and time.