In Silence, 2021

“In Silence” presents a three-fold visage emerging from a barren shore, its cracked, stone-like faces suspended between fragmentation and unity. Reworked from an earlier version, the shift to a vast, quiet seascape lends the figure a profound stillness, as though it exists outside of time. Echoing triadic deities found across myth—suggesting balance, tension, and synthesis—the central face alone feels fully resolved, while the flanking faces remain incomplete, sharing vision yet lacking wholeness. The painting becomes a meditation on inner reconciliation: a merging of divided selves, where clarity is found not in extremes, but in the quiet, uneasy harmony between them.

Reverse: A distressed unicorn-fish swims through a kelpy cluster of spectral, grasping hands. In this snapshot from an unknown hero's journey, the viewer is captured in the creature's tormented gaze and compels the question: "Am I the prized mysterious creature or am I the grasping hand?"

F. Forrestall