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.

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Close-up views of the surface