Righteousness: The Architecture of Conviction

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2020
Collection: Geometric Splendor

Righteousness (2020) belongs to my Geometric Splendor Collection, a body of work that grapples with the emotional weight of order, control, and belief systems. Created during a time when the world outside my window felt fractured and uncertain, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic on canvas stands as a study of formality and its cracks.

The painting is built on a foundation of assertive, grid-like structures in stark black and deep crimson, overlaid upon a restrained palette of muted grays. The geometry feels deliberate, unwavering — like a proclamation of certainty in an ambiguous world. Yet, subtle distortions and disruptions reveal the fragility beneath the surface, hinting at how even the most righteous structures can falter under scrutiny.

This work resonates with the minimalist rigor of Frank Stella, whose hard-edged compositions command space and demand attention. Like Stella, I am interested in how geometry can hold authority, but where his works often celebrate the clarity of form, Righteousness questions it. The painting carries an undercurrent of tension, a quiet suggestion that conviction itself can become its own kind of cage.

Righteousness invites the viewer to reflect on their own structures of belief — where they feel strong, where they feel brittle. It’s a visual meditation on the seductive beauty of control, and the discomfort that arises when that control begins to crack.

As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this painting is both homage and critique — a recognition of the elegance of structure, and an acknowledgment of its inevitable impermanence.