Fracture

60 × 60 inches
Mixed media: Liquid watercolor, hand-applied black India ink, and acrylic on museum-grade archival cold-press watercolor paper.

Fracture

This work captures a moment of botanical rupture rendered through fluid abstraction. Vivid crimson washes unfold like magnified petals, layered with acrylic to build depth, opacity, and structural contrast. Dense black ink fields fracture and carve through the composition, creating sharp divisions within the softness of the surrounding color.

The pigments were applied using a wet-on-wet process, allowing the watercolor to bloom organically while the acrylic reinforces form and weight. The interplay between saturated red, invasive black, and preserved white negative space creates tension between vitality and shadow, softness and containment. The result is a composition that feels simultaneously delicate and visceral, suspended between beauty and disturbance.