Eclipse

The Eclipse series of paintings began with an image that came to me while meditating: a central radiating shape and its shadow hovering above perpendicular lines, rendered in three distinct colors. I played around with the composition to see how using colors of similar value could reveal another form when viewed in grayscale—hence the title of the series. Later, on a trip to the Austrian countryside, I noticed a striking resemblance between these forms and the monstrances on display at Melk Abbey. This led me to explore the sunburst as an ancient, numinous symbol that has been used across Christian and Pagan traditions to express the eternal cycle of life and the bridge between the physical and the spiritual. In this light, the geometry took on deeper meaning: horizontal lines represent time, vertical lines represent space, and the sunburst embodies the eternal, hovering gently above. This union of opposites sits at the heart of the series. Creating these paintings brings a sense of harmony between the tangible and the unknown, the linear and the spontaneous, stillness and movement—a duality reflected in color palettes that range from electric to subdued.