La Vie de Sirène

About this work

La Vie de Sirène features deep blue-greens and violets rising up into brilliant blue light. I painted it in acrylic on tightly-woven, portrait-quality linen, adhered using my archival “wet-stretching” method to one of my dimensional panels, which varies simultaneously  in height, width, and depth across the work. Following my breakthrough work Midnight Duel, the form and composition of La Vie de Sirène activates the space around it, blurring the line between painting and sculpture, between painting and cinema, between painting and life, as it activates the fourth dimension of time through the viewer’s engagement with it. Taking it further, here, painting is no longer a static view of the world, but the immersive experience of seeing the world through a new perspective, as one would if they could live within the depths of the ocean.

This work was titled by my partner, Caitlin Lissauer. The Betsy to my Andrew Wyeth, she has an innate ability to express in words that which I can only express in paint.