Season 1, 2022
To love is to suffer. To suffer is, eventually, to love again.
This is not a dark idea. It is the most honest thing anyone has ever said about being alive.
LOVE & SUFFER is the painting that names itself. XO SUFREN, the artist's mark, explodes across the canvas in white and magenta, dripping, layered, unapologetic. It is simultaneously a signature and a manifesto. A declaration that beauty and pain are not opposites. They are the same current running in two directions, and you cannot have one without the other. The yin and the yang. The kiss and the wound. The full, complicated, magnificent cost of feeling anything at all.
The hot magenta and fuchsia feel almost neon against the black, like something you would find on a wall in a city that never sleeps. It has the energy of street art but the intention of fine art. Controlled chaos. A mess that knows exactly what it is doing.
This is a painting for someone who has loved recklessly and would do it again. For someone who understands that the most beautiful things in life come with risk. For the person who walks into a room and owns it without trying.
At 24 x 17½ inches it is intimate in scale but enormous in personality. It does not whisper. It does not ask for your attention. It already has it.
Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Acrylic Dye, Acrylic Varnish, Spray Paint, Acrylic Marker on canvas.
24 x 17½ in.
Original, one of one.
Season 1, 2022
To love is to suffer. To suffer is, eventually, to love again.
This is not a dark idea. It is the most honest thing anyone has ever said about being alive.
LOVE & SUFFER is the painting that names itself. XO SUFREN, the artist's mark, explodes across the canvas in white and magenta, dripping, layered, unapologetic. It is simultaneously a signature and a manifesto. A declaration that beauty and pain are not opposites. They are the same current running in two directions, and you cannot have one without the other. The yin and the yang. The kiss and the wound. The full, complicated, magnificent cost of feeling anything at all.
The hot magenta and fuchsia feel almost neon against the black, like something you would find on a wall in a city that never sleeps. It has the energy of street art but the intention of fine art. Controlled chaos. A mess that knows exactly what it is doing.
This is a painting for someone who has loved recklessly and would do it again. For someone who understands that the most beautiful things in life come with risk. For the person who walks into a room and owns it without trying.
At 24 x 17½ inches it is intimate in scale but enormous in personality. It does not whisper. It does not ask for your attention. It already has it.
Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Acrylic Dye, Acrylic Varnish, Spray Paint, Acrylic Marker on canvas.
24 x 17½ in.
Original, one of one.
