The Irreversible Intimacy of Two Collapsing Bodies
(2026)
Carved paper, pearls, mixed media on wood panel
60 x 96 in (diptych)
Ashes series
Two gravitational centers move toward one another across a seam.
Forty-four layered sheets compress inward, carving density rather than expansion into the surface.
The strata read as pressure building toward merger.
A white pearl anchors one panel. A black pearl anchors the other.
They function as paired singularities, mirroring charge and absorption across the divide.
If life begins through division, this work proposes its inverse.