The Eddy

The Eddy grew out of my fascination with moving water and the patterns it creates when opposing forces meet. An eddy is a place where water appears caught between moving forward and circling back, and that idea became a metaphor for the painting itself. Built through layers of poured, brushed, scraped, and splattered paint, the image evolved much the way an eddy forms—through accumulation, disruption, and return. While inspired by observations of water flowing around rocks and obstacles, the painting is ultimately about the tension between chaos and order, motion and stillness, and the way seemingly random forces can create moments of unexpected balance.