Architecture of Becoming Series
60 × 48 in. | Oil on canvas
The Current is a meditation on the collective consciousness and the forces that carry us through the changing tides of human experience.
The great wave represents the collective itself—a living body made from countless lives, memories, emotions, struggles, triumphs, and experiences moving together. Within it, everyone is somewhere in the cycle. Some are rising toward the surface. Some are fighting to stay afloat. Some have been caught in the undertow, pulled so deeply beneath the water that they can no longer remember what the surface feels like.
No position is permanent.
At the center of the story is the surfer.
Rather than attempting to control the ocean, he learns to move with it. He finds his balance within something infinitely more powerful than himself and begins riding the current upward.
But even reaching the crest carries its own fear.
At the top of the wave, there can be a moment when everything feels possible—and simultaneously fragile. The higher we rise, the farther it appears we have to fall. We fear being thrown from the wave, crashing back to earth and shattering into a million pieces.
Yet the ocean teaches another truth:
The purpose was never to remain at the top.
Every wave rises. Every wave breaks. Every wave returns.
The moon-like portal above the water represents the unseen forces that continually push and pull upon our lives. Like the moon governing the tides, there are rhythms larger than ourselves—cycles of expansion and contraction, becoming and unbecoming, surrender and emergence.
This is why The Current belongs within the Architecture of Becoming.
The series represents a movement from overflow toward focus—from filling every available space to discovering the power of restraint. Here, the emptiness is as important as the marks. The painting does not attempt to contain the entire ocean. It gives the current enough space to move.
Ultimately, The Current is not about conquering the wave.
It is about learning how to ride it.
To recognize when to paddle, when to stand, when to surrender, and when to trust that even after being pulled beneath the surface, another current may already be carrying us upward.
We are not separate from the current.
We are the current.
Architecture of Becoming Series
60 × 48 in. | Oil on canvas
The Current is a meditation on the collective consciousness and the forces that carry us through the changing tides of human experience.
The great wave represents the collective itself—a living body made from countless lives, memories, emotions, struggles, triumphs, and experiences moving together. Within it, everyone is somewhere in the cycle. Some are rising toward the surface. Some are fighting to stay afloat. Some have been caught in the undertow, pulled so deeply beneath the water that they can no longer remember what the surface feels like.
No position is permanent.
At the center of the story is the surfer.
Rather than attempting to control the ocean, he learns to move with it. He finds his balance within something infinitely more powerful than himself and begins riding the current upward.
But even reaching the crest carries its own fear.
At the top of the wave, there can be a moment when everything feels possible—and simultaneously fragile. The higher we rise, the farther it appears we have to fall. We fear being thrown from the wave, crashing back to earth and shattering into a million pieces.
Yet the ocean teaches another truth:
The purpose was never to remain at the top.
Every wave rises. Every wave breaks. Every wave returns.
The moon-like portal above the water represents the unseen forces that continually push and pull upon our lives. Like the moon governing the tides, there are rhythms larger than ourselves—cycles of expansion and contraction, becoming and unbecoming, surrender and emergence.
This is why The Current belongs within the Architecture of Becoming.
The series represents a movement from overflow toward focus—from filling every available space to discovering the power of restraint. Here, the emptiness is as important as the marks. The painting does not attempt to contain the entire ocean. It gives the current enough space to move.
Ultimately, The Current is not about conquering the wave.
It is about learning how to ride it.
To recognize when to paddle, when to stand, when to surrender, and when to trust that even after being pulled beneath the surface, another current may already be carrying us upward.
We are not separate from the current.
We are the current.
