36 × 24 oil on canvas
Witch Hunt explores the strange resilience of ideas and what happens when we attempt to contain or destroy them. Before the trunk of a tree, a veiled figure holds an ambiguous, Rorschach-like image to a flame. Around her, loose pages are caught by the wind, their markings beginning to shift beyond the boundaries of the paper that holds them.
The images seem almost alive. As they distort and escape their original forms, destruction becomes transformation. What is burned, rejected, or suppressed does not necessarily disappear. Ideas can move beyond their origins, changing shape as they pass between people and through time, sometimes becoming something entirely different from what they once were.
The ambiguity of the images is part of their power. Like an inkblot, meaning is not contained entirely within the object itself, but is shaped by the person encountering it. What one person perceives as threatening, another may understand as beautiful, necessary, or true.
Witch Hunt reflects on the difficulty of extinguishing an idea. Attempts to destroy it may instead become part of its evolution, releasing it from the very boundaries meant to contain it and allowing it to take on a life of its own.
Limited edition signed/numbered giclee prints available
36 × 24 oil on canvas
Witch Hunt explores the strange resilience of ideas and what happens when we attempt to contain or destroy them. Before the trunk of a tree, a veiled figure holds an ambiguous, Rorschach-like image to a flame. Around her, loose pages are caught by the wind, their markings beginning to shift beyond the boundaries of the paper that holds them.
The images seem almost alive. As they distort and escape their original forms, destruction becomes transformation. What is burned, rejected, or suppressed does not necessarily disappear. Ideas can move beyond their origins, changing shape as they pass between people and through time, sometimes becoming something entirely different from what they once were.
The ambiguity of the images is part of their power. Like an inkblot, meaning is not contained entirely within the object itself, but is shaped by the person encountering it. What one person perceives as threatening, another may understand as beautiful, necessary, or true.
Witch Hunt reflects on the difficulty of extinguishing an idea. Attempts to destroy it may instead become part of its evolution, releasing it from the very boundaries meant to contain it and allowing it to take on a life of its own.
Limited edition signed/numbered giclee prints available
