Of Rocks And Colors

Have you ever spent an absurd amount of time examining, admiring, or pondering about the beauty of a simple rock? This series takes root in a profound love of minerals and their relationship to pigments, colors and ultimately, painting. After all, once transformed into a paste, aren’t colors just a bunch of crushed rocks on a surface? On the canvas, there are many minerals: the subject itself opposes a carefully selected contrasting hue that was created with other minerals. Background and subject play with each other, questioning their very own nature and origin, putting each other on display. A shadow has been added to ground the object in the natural world, emphasizing its earthy origin. Despite anchoring itself in a more cerebral approach, this realistic series is also for people who are simply mesmerized every time they visit a museum’s minerals collection.