Mercurial

$250.00

“Nought may endure but mutability.”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley

8×8 canvas that gathers a storm of motion around a small figure caught in mid step. The scene is rendered in soft sepia, a woodland blurred by wind or memory, while a child leans forward, eyes lowered, as if listening to something only they can hear. Around the face, pale petals spin and dissolve, some printed, some raised in white embroidery. They feel like thoughts lifting away from the body, moments that refuse to stay in one emotional key.

Hand laid gilding draws a quiet scaffolding over the image. Gold lines and circles trace the logic of the Circle of Fifths, a musical map turned diagnostic field. Some rings hold detailed notation, others remain open and empty, suggesting moods that swell into full tonal chords and states that never quite resolve. The structure echoes the DSM 5 criteria for Bipolar Disorder, where shifts in energy, attention, and desire move in repeating patterns that are both measurable and deeply human.

The strip of vivid magenta across the top interrupts the muted forest, a sudden bright register of feeling that refuses to blend in. At the bottom edge, a small run of color bars hints at the whole spectrum underlying the sepia wash. The canvas holds these changes without choosing one as the true self. Instead, it sits with the reality that everything is in motion, from the petals in the air to the nervous system beneath the skin, and that what endures is not a single fixed state but the constant turning between them.

“Nought may endure but mutability.”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley

8×8 canvas that gathers a storm of motion around a small figure caught in mid step. The scene is rendered in soft sepia, a woodland blurred by wind or memory, while a child leans forward, eyes lowered, as if listening to something only they can hear. Around the face, pale petals spin and dissolve, some printed, some raised in white embroidery. They feel like thoughts lifting away from the body, moments that refuse to stay in one emotional key.

Hand laid gilding draws a quiet scaffolding over the image. Gold lines and circles trace the logic of the Circle of Fifths, a musical map turned diagnostic field. Some rings hold detailed notation, others remain open and empty, suggesting moods that swell into full tonal chords and states that never quite resolve. The structure echoes the DSM 5 criteria for Bipolar Disorder, where shifts in energy, attention, and desire move in repeating patterns that are both measurable and deeply human.

The strip of vivid magenta across the top interrupts the muted forest, a sudden bright register of feeling that refuses to blend in. At the bottom edge, a small run of color bars hints at the whole spectrum underlying the sepia wash. The canvas holds these changes without choosing one as the true self. Instead, it sits with the reality that everything is in motion, from the petals in the air to the nervous system beneath the skin, and that what endures is not a single fixed state but the constant turning between them.