Bacchian Revelation, 2026

24" x 36" acrylic on board; Framed.

Bacchian Revelation unfolds like a vision granted in the fevered aftermath of a forgotten rite. The fractured head rises from a barren desert beneath a heavy sky, its cracked brow sprouting antlered growths as if the mind itself were reverting to something older and wilder. One eye weeps while the other is gone entirely—a hollow opening through which the distant clouds are visible, as though part of the self has eroded away, leaving only sky where vision once lived. Around the figure gathers a dense congregation of symbols—fruit, beasts, roots, flesh—like offerings piled at the feet of an ancient god. Telephone poles march across the desert like thin modern totems, their wires humming faintly above a spiritual wasteland. In this strange union of decay and abundance, Bacchian Revelation suggests the moment when the mask of civilization cracks open and the deeper Bacchic force—ecstasy, instinct, fertility, and ruin—briefly reveals itself beneath the surface of the modern world.

Reverse: a fractured face of consciousness where multiple identities—watcher, void, and mask—merge beneath a single unblinking eye, suggesting the ecstatic moment when the ordered self dissolves and something older, wilder, and godlike briefly looks back through us.