Acrylic
Canvas
120” x 60”
Acrylic on Canvas
The Neural Tempest
surreal: Surreal, Visionary, Figurative
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This vision came to me in a dream…A female humanoid figure is suspended in a moment between chaos and bliss—her body drifting through shattered dimensions of color and energy. One hand stretches behind, dripping glowing threads like liquid light; the other reaches toward a swirling vortex of color and geometry that appears to be drawing them in or exploding outward from their touch.
Though she reaches toward radiant clarity, she remains tethered to the swirling storm behind her by a thin purple line—a symbolic thread of attachment, memory, or unresolved inner force. The piece explores transformation, fragmentation, and the raw beauty of a mind unraveling and expanding all at once. Caught mid-transcendence, she exists in a liminal state—neither broken nor whole but becoming.
Tags: Chaos, Bliss, Attachment, Transformation
This vision came to me in a dream and was one of the most vivid and intense dreams I’ve ever had….so intense that I couldn’t sleep for days as this image was so alive in my mind. I painted Tranquil in 2014 during a time when I was trying to make sense of inner chaos—when everything felt like it was breaking apart and yet coming together at the same time. The figure in the painting is a female humanoid suspended between two forces: reaching forward into light, into bliss, but still tethered to the storm behind her by a single purple thread. To me, that line is a symbol of how we’re never fully free from where we come from, even as we grow.
This piece is about the space between destruction and becoming. About transformation that doesn’t happen all at once, but in layers—sometimes painful, sometimes beautiful. The shards of color and swirling patterns around her are like fractured thoughts or dimensions colliding, and yet through all of it, there’s a kind of stillness. A quiet in the eye of it all.
That’s why I called it Tranquil. Not because everything is calm—but because she’s surrendered to the moment. She’s not fighting it anymore. She’s in it. That’s where the peace is.
