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My Paintings Finally Have a Home

I have been painting for years with nowhere to put the work except a wall or a folder on my phone. Today that changes.

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My Paintings Finally Have a Home

May 2026

My Paintings Finally Have a Home

I have been painting for years with nowhere to put the work except a wall or a folder on my phone. Today that changes.

The Color of a Cut Orange

July 2025

The Color of a Cut Orange

A study of the color palette behind Blood Oranges, Blossom: the sage background, the terracotta vase, the ruby flesh of the fruit, and the quiet white blossom that holds it all together.

On mixing pigment from memory rather than sight

April 2025

On mixing pigment from memory rather than sight

The colors I reach for are not always the colors I see. Sometimes they are the colors I remember, warmer, more amber, more longing than any real afternoon. I have come to understand this as the essential act of painting: not the reproduction of light, but the translation of feeling into hue.

The Street You Cannot Find on a Map

July 2025

The Street You Cannot Find on a Map

A meditation on The Street Below the Minaret and the philosophy of memory: how we do not retrieve the past but rebuild it, how the lane from a Tikrit childhood exists only in the act of painting it.