When you've given yourself fully to something - the years of discipline, the dedication, the showing up. At a certain point, all of that effort earns you a kind of freedom. A release. You stop thinking and start feeling.
The eye enters through turbulence - dark, gestural marks in the upper register, a complex knot of energy at center ...and then finds somewhere to rest. Calm and energy coexist - neither cancels the other out. They hold together and feel inevitable.
That journey is The Loosening.
This is what it feels like when tension finally stops fighting itself.
"The Loosening" — Acrylic on canvas, 40 × 30 in
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This work is available at $3,400. Feel free to message me for additional photos, details, or questions about the painting.