Layers of Belonging

This alcohol ink painting on Yupo paper is a serene yet vividly composed landscape that evokes the layered geology and poetic quiet of a coastal horizon.
Bands of deep crimson, soft rose, and translucent blush sweep across the middle of the painting like eroded cliffs or sedimentary rock faces, marked with fine linear etchings that mimic the striations of time. The subtle carving of white lines in the upper maroon band adds a sense of cartographic depth—like ancient routes or forgotten contours of the land.
Beneath, a soft, almost iridescent wave of pale lavender and white leads the eye into a tranquil sea-green foreground, offering contrast and calm. Above, the sky fades into silvery blues and lilac, creating a delicate sense of atmosphere and distance.
The overall effect is both structured and dreamlike—a landscape that feels simultaneously ancient and abstract.
 
Folded into the earth’s slow breath,
each line remembers
a moment of becoming.
 
Red cliffs rise like held emotions —
ancient, striated,
warmed by centuries of sun and silence.
They hold the weight of time,
and yet,
they rest lightly
against the sky’s soft hush.
Below,
a gentler layer cradles the sea,
where memory drifts in tones of jade and rose,
and the past is not buried —
only softened.
This is where land meets soul —
in quiet accumulation,
in lines drawn not to divide,
but to hold
what we have loved
and where we’ve stood.