Into The Depth 24 x 36 Mixed Media on Canvas

Into the Depth
24 x 36
Mixed Media on Canvas (acrylic, oil pastel, pencil)
Collection: Mending, In Practice

This piece’s final incarnation began on a morning when I had places to be and things to do — but instead, I followed the quieter insistence to paint.

It took longer than most of my work. I layered and relayered, scraped back, redrew, softened, reintroduced color. There are many visible histories in this surface — turquoise and light blue rising through magenta and neon green, pinks pressed into lightly shimmery silver. Pencil lines remain like thoughts that refused to disappear.

The evolution of this piece felt auspicious. It resolved itself the day after the Lunar New Year — a threshold moment — and it carries that feeling of crossing into something unseen but necessary.

There are many layers here because we are layered. Complex. Contradictory. Capable of holding tenderness and boldness at once.

“Into the Depth” is not about sinking. It is about choosing to go inward. Choosing to explore what is beneath distraction, beneath performance, beneath surface identity and what’s underneath is stunning.

It is for anyone who, like Walt Whitman, contains multitudes.

This work asks: What happens when we trust the descent? What might we discover when we stay long enough for the deeper colors to emerge?