The Encounter

Mixed media on canvas | 24 x 24" | 2023
Against a deep midnight blue field alive with scattered dots of light, a chameleon clings to a heart — hand-cut leather triangles in magenta and teal, assembled with the precision of a mosaic. The creature, rendered in greens and golds with a spiraling tail, holds its find with quiet intensity, as if the heart itself is the most extraordinary thing it has ever come across.
A burst of golden texture radiates to the right, and colorful dots of every size pulse through the dark background like a living constellation, giving the scene a cosmic intimacy — small and infinite at once.
The Encounter speaks to those moments when something unexpected stops us completely. When we find — or are found by — something that transforms us.