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18×24, Mixed media (acrylic, charcoal, collage) on a traditional profile, back-stapled canvas.
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Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 9 × 12 inches, price includes taxes and shipping costs
Description:
Fire and Ice is a study in contrast — heat versus calm, structure versus chaos, sharp edge against softness. Layers of scraped acrylic, collaged ephemera, and fragmented textures build a scene that feels suspended in tension. A blood-red sphere hovers at the edge of form, while cool blues and fiery oranges blur and collide like weather fronts meeting in midair.
This piece explores the internal push-pull of emotional contradiction: rage beneath stillness, tenderness in the aftermath of destruction, moments of beauty within unrest.
Varnished for color protection and subtle texture enhancement
Unframed; edges are painted for a clean, modern presentation
Signed on the back
Acrylics on 16” H × 12” W × 0.5” D canvas.
Back-stapled and unframed, sides painted, although half inch depth facilitates easy framing.
Title: By Fire
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 9x12 in
A visceral blend of abstraction and collage, By Fire evokes themes of grief, rage, and resilience through layered textures and haunting imagery. The canvas is dominated by vivid hues of burnt orange and raw pink, interspersed with gestural strokes and smudges of white, black, and green. A photographic fragment of grayscale roses and ornate architecture anchors the upper right, partially obscured by the bold text “BY FIRE,” hinting at destruction and transformation.
A realistically rendered mouth emerges from the chaos—its lips closed, stoic, with amber teardrops falling from the face. Below, stamped or sketched heads form a crowd, faceless yet expressive in their anonymity. A clipped quote embedded in the lower portion reads: “It’s sickening in a lot of ways.”—a stark commentary on trauma, possibly systemic, perhaps personal.
Torn, scraped, and emotionally charged, this work straddles the space between beauty and violence, memory and erasure. It invites the viewer to consider what survives after devastation—and what is remade in its wake.
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