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This piece came from a deeply human place—where beauty and death share the same bed. I painted her lying in stillness, surrounded by skulls, not as a victim but as a symbol of the fleeting nature of time, intimacy, and life itself. There’s a tension between love and loss, passion and mortality, that I wanted to make visual. Painting it made me feel vulnerable. I thought a lot about my own brushes with death, how quickly everything can vanish, and what we leave behind. This was as much therapy as it was art.
Rendered in a limited grayscale palette, the figure lies draped in soft cloth with smooth gradations, echoing the softness of her skin. In contrast, the surrounding skulls are sharply defined, rigid and cold, reminders of decay. The entire composition is baroque in tone, using chiaroscuro lighting to drive contrast and amplify emotion. The visual texture is classical, like a carved marble tomb, but emotionally raw.
This piece came from a deeply human place—where beauty and death share the same bed. I painted her lying in stillness, surrounded by skulls, not as a victim but as a symbol of the fleeting nature of time, intimacy, and life itself. There’s a tension between love and loss, passion and mortality, that I wanted to make visual. Painting it made me feel vulnerable. I thought a lot about my own brushes with death, how quickly everything can vanish, and what we leave behind. This was as much therapy as it was art.
Rendered in a limited grayscale palette, the figure lies draped in soft cloth with smooth gradations, echoing the softness of her skin. In contrast, the surrounding skulls are sharply defined, rigid and cold, reminders of decay. The entire composition is baroque in tone, using chiaroscuro lighting to drive contrast and amplify emotion. The visual texture is classical, like a carved marble tomb, but emotionally raw.