Event Horizon
40 × 40 inches
Mixed media: Liquid watercolor, hand-applied black India ink, and acrylic on museum-grade archival cold-press watercolor paper, printed as a giclée archival pigment print on museum-grade textured art paper, then hand-finished with layered ink and paint.
Event Horizon
This piece captures the moment of impact between structure and softness through a single, suspended botanical form. A vivid red bloom emerges from a dense black ink field, pierced by a horizontal ink stem that cuts the composition with surgical precision. The watercolor diffuses outward in soft gradients, while acrylic reinforces opacity, depth, and physical presence.
The wet-on-wet process allows the pigments to fracture naturally, producing cellular textures, splatter, and bleeding edges that evoke both floral anatomy and raw energy. The tension between explosive red, consuming black, and open white space creates a striking balance between beauty and force, fragility and rupture. The work reads as both a flower and an event, frozen at the exact moment of transformation.