Encaustics on wooden panel
2019
Inspired by Emilie Autumn, “The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls.” Simply put, but such a powerfully sad statement of truth and hidden secrets. I wanted that same collision of darkness and hope depicted in this piece, with at its core a “terribly real” secret that we may even keep from ourselves.
“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”