Oscillate inhabits a timeless space between two individuals, mapping the subtle terrain of interaction: intention and misunderstanding, proximity and distance, the fluid choreography of connection.

More than a depiction of the dynamic between two points, this series reflects a wider human truth, that we are elevated when we remain open to one another.

This series of paintings accompanies the song “Oscillate” written and released by “Tether the Star”:

Oscillate    

The tide goes low and I go with it,

Dried out sand burning my feet.

I don’t know where it will take me

Or how it will change me, but I know I must go

Pull me back, flood my wounds

Bring my eyes up to yours, just like before

Rest your chin on the shelf of my shoulder

Speak your mind, I can take it I swear

Pick a point out on the horizon

And let’s put our eyes on what takes us from here

I know you and what we’ve been through

I see the lay of the land like a map of us too

What’s not fair

What’s not just in the world

You draw the lines 

I pull them tight

And we shelter the storm

It’s easy when you say

We will be alright one day

One day

As the moon pulls and pushes the tide

I try to decide which way I will go

Expose or hide it all away

Let the water disguise what’s inside

I know that when we’re one

We are strong

We are brave

We’re better than before

And we shelter the storm

It’s easy when you say

We will be alright one day, one day

As the moon pulls and pushes the tide

I try to decide which way I will go

Expose or hide it all away

Let the water disguise what’s inside

Paintings to accompany songs written and recorded by më under the stage name ::: Tether the Star :::

Paintings made under the idea of Suspiration: "to fetch a deep breath, breathe out, exclaim with a sigh."

Paintings that utilize flower-like shapes as a launchpad for exploration of color/form and how it interrelates to meaning.

Paintings made under the idea of Collisions. 

"The vision kept coming to me, kept slipping away, kept changing. It is of light coming down and crashing like a glowing wave, like a graceful slide. The glow of hope, blur and clarity dancing the dance of eternity. I kept reaching for it and it kept slipping through my fingers.

I decided to paint it over and over because it moves like clouds. It is never static. It is some kind of Divine dance between clarity and obscurity; between logic and nonsense, between knowing and wondering. There is a line drawn like a horizon but it is not. It is a line between the dualities that sway inside us. The dream and reality that mixes up and makes us human. The collision that affirms that we are alive! 

I will keep painting it for as long as it keeps tapping my shoulder." 

Paintings made under the idea of Pullulate, to be teeming, be abuzz, become abundant, increase rapidly, germinate, or breed freely. Each non-objective mixed media piece is painted quickly, taking guidance from the flow of the materials.