Nebuchadnezzar, 2022

49" x 32" acrylic on board; Basic Frame

This 48" x 32" painting takes its inspiration from William Blake’s haunting image of King Nebuchadnezzar. Here, the biblical monarch—cursed to crawl on all fours—is reimagined as a colossal, building-like being, his body detailed with windows and architectural forms. The hybrid figure recalls Hieronymus Bosch’s grotesque “tree man” from The Garden of Earthly Delights, standing at once as a body and as a ruin.

The titanic king drags his maddened form through a barren desert, his vastness emphasized by a lone, diminutive figure who approaches him from the foreground. The work serves as both homage and dialogue with Blake and Bosch, fusing their visionary traditions: Blake’s prophetic intensity and Bosch’s surreal architecture of the human form.

It is at once an image of downfall, monumentality, and the uneasy kinship between man and structure—an empire reduced to crawling stone, yet still commanding awe.

Reverse: manifesting a vision.