Portrait

15” x 25” Oil on wood panels

Portrait is a two-panel painting that explores fragmentation and quiet presence. One panel shows a woman’s face, turned downward and partially obscured. The second, slightly offset to the lower right, isolates her hand holding a cup—an ordinary gesture made strange by its disconnection from the figure.

I was interested in how small details—a hand, a turned head—can carry emotional weight. The abstract shapes in the background echo others in this portrait series, helping to tether the two panels together visually, even as they remain physically apart. Like much of my work, this piece sits in that in-between space: intimate but distant, composed but unresolved.