This painting continues my exploration of landscape as a psychological terrain—an inner topography shaped by memory, rupture, and return. In Passage, each work traces a movement through states of mind, and this piece marks a moment of descent: a passage through layered thresholds where clarity erupts and dissolves in equal measure.
The cascading waterfall became a way to articulate the experience of being carried through time—sometimes willingly, sometimes by force. Its multiple tiers and sudden divergences mirror the way memories split, recombine, and surge through consciousness. I paint the water not as a literal element but as an active force, a current of thought or emotion that cuts through the accumulated weight of experience.
The surrounding terrain emerges from thick, gestural marks of red, green, and black—earth that feels both ancient and unsettled. These strata are the sediments of the psyche, material that has been shaped by pressure, heat, and the slow erosion of years. As I worked, the landscape became less a place and more a state of being: a reminder that the inner world is never fixed, but constantly shifting underfoot.
In this painting, the waterfall is not simply a descent but a release—a surrender to movement, to change, to the inevitability of transition. The painting captures the tension between collapse and renewal, between fragmentation and flow. It marks a point in the journey where the mind enters a deeper chamber, confronting both turbulence and possibility.
Passage is a long meditation on how we move through our own interiors. This work stands as one threshold among many—an image of falling through, of letting go, and of finding a strange, unexpected clarity in the rush.