Giants of the cosmos

Tome two: The subtle engine

2025

If the first tome of Giants of the Cosmos captured the mythic scale of power, belief, and consequence, Tome Two turns inward—toward the fragile architecture of self. This chapter explores memory, dreams, and the quiet weight of daily life as the soil from which decisions grow.

The works in this series question how choices are made—not just the dramatic, history-shaping ones, but the small, silent ones that shape a person. What made me turn left instead of right? Was it instinct, fear, hope—or something passed down without question? I do not always know if I chose well, or if I ever truly had a choice. But the question remains: how do the giants choose? What must happen inside a being for it to rise, to become more than a product of its circumstances?

These paintings reflect a process of reconstruction and reckoning. They mine personal memories, vivid dreams, and lived moments for clues—abstracted, distorted, and sometimes humorous. A recurring dream. A day at school. A lonely gesture. They are not narratives, but emotional fossils: evidence of who I was, who I am, and who I’m trying to understand.

In Tome Two, the cosmos is not distant or divine—it is domestic, interior, and filled with echoes. The giants may still exist, but their origins are closer than we think.

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