SEPTEMBER IS A CHIMERA

Height (cm): 50

Width (cm): 100

Depth (cm): 2

Materials: Acrylic, gouache, modelling paste, glitter

Date Completed: August 2024

"This is an intuitive work meditating on September’s New Year-like, back-to-school energy. My spirit was broken from a break-up, slower sales & the sharp return of burnout symptoms. I felt frustrated, lost & like I was failing to live up to my potential. September offered a bridge into autumn/winter & 2025. Looking ahead to those slower seasons helped me feel less constricted. Remembering that a year flows into the next showed me I wasn’t out of time."

"I kept thinking of a Phoenix, dying before emerging from its ashes. However, what was being born wasn’t ‘pure’ (Phoenix/all bird/one thing/entirely new) but something with eclectic, collected parts (Chimera/mixed beast/many things/compiled over time). The vivid colours - balanced by grounding earth tones - & sense of rhythm/flow represent my new more shrewd hope. I mixed modelling paste into paint to preserve the brush’s fluid movements."