Earthbound

Original Graphite on Archival Paper
18 x 24 in
2026

THE ARTIST'S VISION

"I do not see a garden in the leaves that crown her head. I see the rusting halo of a divinity that is slowly fading before my eyes.

Her gaze pierces me with the specific, crushing melancholy of someone who remembers paradise but can no longer find the door. She sits in the heavy atmosphere of the earth, a silence amidst the noise, wearing her exile like a crown.

She offers me no answers—only the beautiful, terrifying mystery of why she chose to stay behind when the rest of the angels fled."