black flower stories

Black Flower #5, acrylic on archival paper, 50"x50"

Black Flower, #4, acrylic on archival paper, 54"x54"

Going into the dark, stories arise in these paintings that are mythical, primordial, futuristic, harkening the end of the earth as we know it and a psychic return to the romantic past. Within the black flower, I think I see the world that is coming, the world that has been, and the symmetry of both.