This piece captures a frozen moment of tenderness and repose that is open to interpretation as it oscillates between the categories of figure and landscape.
The color palette was chosen to produce a disorienting effect since it twists the expected colors of skin, flowers and ground.
I designed this image on the iPad in early 2021. At the time I was all about making small, intimate works that could say a lot with very little.
What doesn’t show well in the picture? There is a pleasing textural contrast between the glossy red and the matte purple/brown.