Dragon Sickness

Dragon Sickness explores the seductive weight of accumulation and the quiet erosion that happens when desire begins to replace presence. A fragmented portrait emerges through layered color, dripping textures, and metallic interruptions, suggesting both ornament and corrosion existing at the same time.

Gold-like surfaces scatter across the composition as symbols of allure and burden, while the elongated neck and steady gaze evoke stillness caught inside internal tension. The piece moves between beauty and decay, reflecting the emotional cost of holding too tightly to what glimmers.

2022

Oil paint on wood

24 × 18 inches

Original artwork available

Just a little taste of ease

Let my gowns sway upon it

It’s all I can see while life passes away

Feathers drifting and glimmering in the pass

I can see you out there sky

But the Gold, It’s swimming in me