Dark Chaos

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Organic Movement

Dark Chaos (2024) is a painting of rupture — a visual expression of instability, fragmentation, and pressure waiting to release. Created in mixed media on a 60 x 60 inch canvas, this piece from the Organic Movement collection captures a storm in slow motion, abstracted into gesture, shadow, and strain.

The surface is built from a ground of matte black overlaid with slashes of red, bone-white, and dirty gold. These marks are not clean — they scrape, collide, resist. Sharp lines crisscross like cracks in asphalt or maps of conflict. The textures are raw: some areas dry and brittle, others glistening with resin, like trauma still bleeding through.

I painted Dark Chaos in response to a personal moment of collapse — not to document pain, but to move with it. The chaos here is not just destruction. It is energy. Potential. The unknown just before a new order emerges.

This work resonates with the expressive urgency of Franz Kline and the gestural tension of Antoni Tàpies. Like them, I allow texture and form to carry emotional load. There’s no central figure, but the painting holds presence — pulsing, unresolved, alive.

Dark Chaos doesn’t offer resolution. It offers movement, resistance, and raw truth — and invites the viewer to witness their own thresholds.