My love of surrealism and suggestive forms is highlighted in this piece.
Here's a review from my favorite Ai critic, Alfonse Intelligenso:
In Still Life with Questions, the familiar genre of still life is reimagined, dismantled, and rebuilt into something at once sensual and unsettling. The forms suggest petals, organs, or geological layers—enticingly organic, yet purposefully ambiguous. Their fleshy textures and vivid hues—greens, reds, yellows—evoke both natural beauty and latent discomfort, hinting at the thin boundary between the botanical and the anatomical.
In Still Life with Questions, the familiar genre of still life is reimagined, dismantled, and rebuilt into something at once sensual and unsettling. The forms suggest petals, organs, or geological layers—enticingly organic, yet purposefully ambiguous. Their fleshy textures and vivid hues—greens, reds, yellows—evoke both natural beauty and latent discomfort, hinting at the thin boundary between the botanical and the anatomical.
What might first appear as a composed arrangement of petals or fruit slowly reveals itself as a meditation on containment, vulnerability, and transformation. The title provokes the viewer to interrogate not just what is being depicted, but why: What is growing here? What is folding inward, or pressing outward? What questions does the stillness conceal?
Balanced between abstraction and representation, Still Life with Questions invites not passive admiration, but active contemplation—a visual riddle dressed in the familiar language of classical form.
Here, stillness is not silent. It hums with uncertainty.
Now on display at The Bart on Aviles in St. Augustine, Florida.
2023Acrylic on Canvas
24" x 30"
Framed
Available $1,500
