Title: Topography of Silence
Series: The Secret Life of the Natural World
Medium: Mixed Media Assemblage on Panel
Size: 24 × 36 inches
Price: $1,500
Topography of Silence is part of the ongoing series The Secret Life of the Natural World, which explores the hidden structures, patterns, and quiet systems that shape the living environment around us.
Constructed through layers of distressed paper, pigment, and textured material, the painting unfolds like an exposed cross-section of terrain. Organic forms expand and intersect like root systems, soil strata, or the unseen networks that connect plant life beneath the ground. Areas of erosion, abrasion, and layered pigment mirror the way natural forces slowly reshape the earth.
The work draws from early memories of observing nature from a handmade treehouse — a childhood vantage point that revealed a world of intricate activity below. Ant colonies formed deliberate pathways through the clay yard, orb-weaver spiders spun precise geometric webs, and rows of sunflowers slowly turned their faces toward the sun. From above, these small ecosystems revealed repeating patterns and rhythms that felt both mysterious and deeply ordered.
Rather than depicting nature directly, Topography of Silence reflects on the subtle architectures that govern it — the quiet intelligence of growth, decay, movement, and time. The layered surfaces become a visual ecology where memory, erosion, and natural pattern converge.
Title: Topography of Silence
Series: The Secret Life of the Natural World
Medium: Mixed Media Assemblage on Panel
Size: 24 × 36 inches
Price: $1,500
Topography of Silence is part of the ongoing series The Secret Life of the Natural World, which explores the hidden structures, patterns, and quiet systems that shape the living environment around us.
Constructed through layers of distressed paper, pigment, and textured material, the painting unfolds like an exposed cross-section of terrain. Organic forms expand and intersect like root systems, soil strata, or the unseen networks that connect plant life beneath the ground. Areas of erosion, abrasion, and layered pigment mirror the way natural forces slowly reshape the earth.
The work draws from early memories of observing nature from a handmade treehouse — a childhood vantage point that revealed a world of intricate activity below. Ant colonies formed deliberate pathways through the clay yard, orb-weaver spiders spun precise geometric webs, and rows of sunflowers slowly turned their faces toward the sun. From above, these small ecosystems revealed repeating patterns and rhythms that felt both mysterious and deeply ordered.
Rather than depicting nature directly, Topography of Silence reflects on the subtle architectures that govern it — the quiet intelligence of growth, decay, movement, and time. The layered surfaces become a visual ecology where memory, erosion, and natural pattern converge.
