There is a moment when you get close enough to something ordinary that it stops being ordinary. That is where this series came from.
Between the Lines began with a simple idea: what happens when you move past the usual viewing distance and keep going? Past the point where you see the whole plant, the whole flower, the whole leaf — into the space where shape and color are all that's left. Where what's between things becomes as present as the things themselves.
It is the same idea as white space in design, or the pause between notes in music. What's not there is sometimes exactly the point.
The three paintings take a different subject and a different color world. The first moves into a succulent's rosette: yellow-green and lime, deep purple-maroon shadow, blue-green offshoots. The second goes inside an orchid: salmon and coral petals, a dramatic center of black and yellow-orange, cool teal pushing the warmth forward. The third pulls you into the heart of an agave: warm greens and olive radiating outward, vivid orange tracing each edge, purple and violet sweeping through the shadows.
Three plants. Three completely different palettes. But the same question running through all of them: what do you find when you look at the part most people walk past?
Each painting hangs on its own. Together they make something else — a conversation about attention, about the rewards of slowing down, about the color and life living in the spaces most of us ignore.
The series is available as a complete set or individually.
