This piece is made using the world's blackest black paint by Culture Hustle, a surreal velvety black that is impossible to translate in pictures and best to be experienced in person. It swallows the light like a hungry creature.

I started without a sketch, with no preparation or idea, but with a pitch-black canvas before me. I was looking into its darkness and listening to what was arising inside my heart. Stroke by stroke, I found a way to bring light out of it.

We often juxtapose light and dark. Dark is often perceived as something negative, something we need to get rid of. Light is perceived as hope, life, and good… but the more I think about it, especially during the past eight months, the more I understand how interconnected they are.

How important it is to walk both, how impossible it is to truly appreciate light without walking through sorrow and learning to honor the heavy, learn from it, and allow all the colors of life to be present and cherished. Turbulent times shape us, allowing us to navigate the darkness with the light in our hearts. They teach us to live in the moment. They also might swallow us all if we lose hope—a fragile balance of light and dark.

Artwork Description

• original painting

• oil and 24k gold leaf on stretched canvas

• 16" × 20" × 1”

• sold unframed

• signed

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