Acrylic
An Interior Bi-Fold Door
12” x 80”
Acrylic on a bi-fold door
surreal: Surreal, Visionary, Fantasy
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This vertical surrealist painting, titled “The Guardian,” depicts a cloaked figure standing watch between realms. Sword in hand, she channels energy downward through layers of reality, her presence, calm yet commanding. Above her hovers a luminous dragonfly — a symbol of transformation and spiritual guidance — while cosmic light and circuitry swirl behind, merging mysticism with the technological unknown.
Beneath the guardian, a broken clock face winds out of a darker realm, its warped gears unraveling time itself. The scene just above the clock shifts into a more surreal landscape, an abstract sea, and dreamlike currents twist through a world suspended between memory and myth. This piece evokes the quiet strength of one who guards the threshold between chaos and clarity — between what has been and what may yet come. On each end of the composition, the blade of a katana emerges — one rising from the top, the other embedded at the bottom — as if marking the threshold between realms. These mirrored blades may represent the duality of protection and precision, beginning and end, action and stillness — the disciplined edge of spiritual guardianship.
Tags: Guardian, Threshold, Dragonfly, Katana, Protection, Time
“The Guardian” was painted as a commissioned piece for Slant Skis, a ski-making company based in North Lake Tahoe, California. It was created specifically to become a graphic design for one of their skis — a unique opportunity to merge my surreal, symbolic style with the thrill and movement of mountain terrain.
This piece represents a sentinel of transformation — a cloaked figure wielding energy through realms both cosmic and temporal. A dragonfly hovers as a spiritual guide, while the twin blades of a katana mark the thresholds of change — above and below, beginning and end. A surreal landscape cascades down towards the bottom of the piece spilling into a clock that winds out of a darker realm,
I wanted to create a guardian not just of mountains, but of moments — a figure who stands at the edge of chaos and clarity, reminding us that movement, like skiing or life itself, is often a dance between stillness and flow.
