patinated gold leaf on card.
framed in a mat black frame with a black mat and Ultra Vue museum glass.
framed size 57cm x 46cm
Ascension Series of 5 paintings
This painting holds the moment of surrender—that wild, ungraceful, holy collapse into something greater than the self. As I created Tumbling Towards the Light, I let go of symmetry, of certainty, and allowed the fragmented pieces to fall where they needed to. It felt like the soul breaking open and reassembling itself in golden truth.
The surface is a dance between dissolution and luminosity. Gold leaf shatters across the canvas—not as a symbol of perfection, but of sacred fragmentation. These pieces are remnants of self: identity, belief, ego, memory—tumbled loose by unseen forces, refined in descent. I did not arrange them. I followed their pull, watching how the light seeped into the cracks, how the divine revealed itself through disarray.
As the shards scatter and lift, they gather and spiral—not toward order, but toward a radiant unknown. In the upper right, the fragments lean into a soft and beckoning pull: a vortex of light. It is subtle, but it hums with invitation. This vortex isn’t forceful—it’s magnetic. A luminous gate, a spiral threshold, a return.
The texture emerged through alchemy—patinated metals, erosion, chemical reactions etched onto gold. Earth and time collaborated to write a surface that is both relic and revelation. The movement is not linear; it is cyclical, sacred, and alive.
Tumbling Towards the Light is about the freefall we all resist—the moment the old dissolves and nothing yet makes sense. But within that tumble, there is guidance. There is grace. There is the pull of the light—spinning just ahead—waiting to receive us.
This painting is my offering to that surrender. My reminder that sometimes we ascend not by rising, but by falling apart—until we’re caught in the arms of something brighter, deeper, and infinitely more whole.
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