What The Light Held  is a collection about broken wholeness. Each painting holds the tension between the known and unknown, abundance and loss. Outlined fruit and curling leaves sit within borders yet press past them, like moments that almost slip away. These works are about beauty and limits and what remains after light passes through- fractured yet miraculously held.


"My language comes from modern cloissonism: bold outlines that keep shapes distinct while allowing color and memory to coexist. Like the knots and threads on the back of a tapestry, these lines reveal the messiness of life while still holding the whole together. The fruit itself becomes a stand in for human experience-fragile, fleeting, impossible to control.  What the Light Held Together is about fractured abundance and the fragile courage of holding on. "