Description
Living on a volcanic island means residing within a landscape that is never still. This painting was shaped by my daily awareness of Kīlauea’s ongoing eruption, just 23 miles from where I live. Even at a distance, the volcano is felt—in shifting light, drifting vog, and the quiet knowledge that the land beneath us is actively forming and reforming.
Fractured planes of blues, teals, charred blacks, and earth tones are cut through with molten reds and oranges that drip and surge across the surface, echoing lava moving beneath a hardened crust. The layered brushwork suggests geological time and internal pressure rather than a literal scene.
This work is a response to living in relationship with an active, unpredictable force—where beauty, tension, destruction, and creation coexist, and change is a constant presence.
