Dichotomy

DICHOTOMY
We are taught to resolve contradictions. To choose a side, find the answer, land somewhere definitive. But most of what is genuinely interesting about being alive exists precisely in the tension between opposites — in the space where two irreconcilable things are both true at once.
Dichotomy refuses to resolve.
Circular forms — planetary, cellular, unmistakably organic — drift through a layered grid of angular divisions that could only have been built by a deliberate hand. Neither system overwhelms the other. The organic and the constructed occupy the same surface with equal authority, in a negotiation that has no winner and no end. Vibrant greens and luminous yellows carry the pulse of something living. Beneath them, subtle reds and earthy undertones run like an undercurrent — transformation, friction, the particular heat of things in contact that weren't designed to touch.
Built with acrylic, gesso, ink and glazing on birchwood panel, the layers accumulate into a surface that holds both impulses simultaneously — the gestural and the geometric, the spontaneous and the structured. The painting doesn't tell you which one wins. It simply holds them both, at full intensity, and lets you sit with the discomfort and the beauty of that.
Some things don't need resolution. They need witness.
40 × 40 cm · Acrylic, gesso, ink and glazing on birchwood panel · 2025 · One of a kind Unframed. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.