The Golden Eternity
Oil & casein on canvas - 2014-16
She will always love us.
Through all the stumbles and falls.
It’s a love that transcends our identities,
breaking down the heavy walls.
Inspired by a feeling, this piece started from a blank canvas during a live painting experience in Vienna, Austria at the Palai Palffy in 2014.
The model was imaginary though I knew she would become a portrait of someone I knew.
It took a couple years for me to realize that my dear sister Katharina would became her embodiment. She posed for the painting after being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer when her daughter was only a year old.
She didn’t stay around for much longer, though in that time this painting transcended a feeling, it became deeply personal and universal at the same time.
She is a timeless image of the Mother.
A reminder of our humanity.
“Everything is ecstasy, inside. … It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.” - Jack Kerouac - an excerpt from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity