Through the Break

Through the Break began as a more structured composition, with distinct fields of color occupying their own spaces. Over time, that sense of separation began to feel too orderly, too resolved. I returned to the painting, building over what was there, scraping back layers, disrupting boundaries, and allowing colors and forms to move into one another.

What emerged was something less predictable, but more connected.

At the center, a dark, sweeping gesture suggests a bridge—not a perfect or delicate one, but something that spans the fractured spaces around it. The painting holds competing forces in tension: warmth and coolness, movement and stillness, destruction and renewal. Some passages remain obscured beneath the surface, while others break through with unexpected intensity.

For me, Through the Break is about the possibility of connection without the absence of division. It reflects the idea that what holds us together isn’t necessarily smooth, seamless, or unbroken. Sometimes connection is something we build through the fractures themselves.

The painting doesn’t resolve those tensions. It allows them to coexist.

Through the Break is a richly layered abstract painting that explores tension, fragmentation, and connection through bold contrasts of color and texture. Vivid passages of electric blue, fiery orange, deep violet, and earthy green emerge from a heavily worked surface, interrupted by dark, sweeping gestures and traces of earlier layers. A prominent curved form cuts through the composition, suggesting a bridge across fractured spaces. The interplay of movement and stillness, disruption and continuity, creates a work that feels both unsettled and strangely cohesive.