Double Donut: A Playful Collision of Color and Form

Medium: Mixed Medium on Wood
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Pop Art

Double Donut is an exploration of movement, rhythm, and playful geometry—brought to life through bold color and glossy surfaces. Measuring 48 inches square, this woodcut painting transforms the familiar shape of a donut into something energetic and unexpected. The two circular forms sit within a divided circle, orbiting inside fields of deep blue, electric turquoise, and dark indigo. It’s both structured and loose, grounded by symmetry yet broken open by the vibrant energy coursing across its surface.

The process of creating Double Donut was as dynamic as the piece itself. After carving the design into wood with CNC precision, I layered rich acrylic colors into the recessed spaces—building each hue into glowing pools of pigment. Then, I added a final gesture: fluid red and yellow lines dripped and dragged across the surface, a nod to spontaneity cutting across control. Sealing the entire work in epoxy resin gave it a sleek, reflective finish, amplifying its depth and making each color pop with luminous clarity. The result feels sculptural as much as painterly—an object that changes depending on where you stand and how the light hits it.

What I love most about Double Donut is its sense of balance and tension. It’s playful, even whimsical, but also layered with contrasts: precision and improvisation, containment and release, surface and depth. The circular forms could be eyes, portals, planetary orbits—or just donuts, abstracted and remixed into a pop symphony of form. There’s no single interpretation here—only an invitation to look, to feel, to spin stories out of color and curve. In its glossy brightness, Double Donut asks us to take joy in the abstract, to savor the unexpected beauty in shape, rhythm, and chance.