Ocupante, Necochea (2016) North South 2021

Ocupante, Necochea (2016) North South 2021Oil on canvas24 x 30 in A late afternoon scene with the heavy stillness of summer air. You can nearly taste the dust, feel the grit underfoot, and hear the fabric snap on the line as the kids bike past. Theres a poetry in the ordinary, a quiet rhythm to daily life that hums just beneath the surface. ProvenanceArtists Studio

The falls churn and roar while vultures ride thermals overhead

The painting captures the north at its most unforgiving and most spectacular

Oil on canvas36 x 48 in

their bodies folded into poses of washing

yet the rider and horse continue forward with quiet determination

but community: the season shifting is felt not through mountains or rivers

the presence still here

nestled among the day’s debris — a soda bottle

and the tunnel of trees that line the street

Oil on hardboard

the flowers overhead

marking the moment when destruction and renewal coexist — neither past nor future fully dominant