"This photograph captures the subtle, textured surface of an oil painting coated in a delicate layer of silver, metallic paint, creating a landscape of light and shadow that invites close inspection. The silver finish lends the piece a metallic sheen, while the underlying texture of the oil paint reveals itself through faint ridges, indentations, and impressions that emerge like ghostly traces across the surface. The work appears almost monochromatic, yet the interaction between light and texture reveals a quiet dynamism; subtle variations in the silver's reflectivity seem to shift depending on the angle, producing an effect that almost animates the surface with a soft luminescence. The faint traces and marks, partially obscured by the metallic coating, suggest a history embedded within the paint—forms or patterns lying just beneath, elusive and partially erased, challenging the viewer to discern the value of the mark itself. Through this minimalist approach, the painting transforms into a meditation on presence and absence, a monochromatic field that simultaneously reveals and conceals. The piece invites viewers to engage with the delicate interplay between materiality and illusion, solidity and ephemerality, as if holding a mirror to the impermanence and fleeting nature of perception itself."

- D. L. Wye

Prints are produced on demand on stretched canvas, acrylic plexi, or giclee fine art paper in a variety of sizes here in the United States.

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