Lying on your stomach in a wild and practically ilimitable part of the country 2026 – 65 x 50cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas
The title gives the painting its perspective before the painting declares it. The body on the ground. The eye at earth level. The wild field seen from below, its scale vertiginous, the flowers pressing toward the viewer at the scale they achieve when you are horizontal among them.
Forms were built up and carved back, the surface scored and scratched to reveal the canvas beneath, the spaces between the dark silhouette forms opened by physical pressure rather than painted into existence. Against these dark animated passages the flowers assert themselves: the blue daisy, the pink chrysanthemum, the purple iris, the white lotus, the yellow narcissus, the red tulip, the pink peony. Each specific. Each pressing toward the picture plane with the urgency of the collective, not arranged, not displayed, but gathered and pushing forward, the roadside refugees of the series’ founding image at maximum density and maximum proximity.
At the base, deep forest green, flat, brushstrokes visible. The ground the body is lying on. The horizon as seen from the ground. Everything above it is the wild and practically ilimitable field. The flowers press toward you from it, collectively, without limit, in the only direction available to them.