Pillar of Truth, 2012

24" x 32" acrylic on board; Unframed + Cradle Box

In Pillar of Truth, the human form emerges not from flesh and bone but from twisting, knotted vegetation—a mass of roots and vines whose surface blossoms into a haunting multitude of blank-eyed faces. This spectral body is at once alive and inert, a composite being that suggests both growth and entrapment. Each face stares outward, silent and unseeing, evoking themes of collective memory, anonymity, and the loss of individual voice within a greater structure.

The surrounding landscape intensifies the strangeness of the figure. A scattering of weathered fence posts, draped in rusted barbed wire and fragments of torn cloth, forms a kind of broken boundary—suggesting forgotten enclosures or failed attempts at containment. The wilderness, vast and timeless, refuses to be tamed. Even the sky seems warped, bending around the central figure as though reality itself acknowledges its presence.

The title anchors the work in a paradox: truth as something immovable and monumental, yet formed here from fragile plant life and spectral faces. It suggests that truth is not a single, pristine monolith but an accumulation—layered, organic, and often marked by suffering or silence. The figure stands as both a beacon and a warning, a monument not to clarity but to the mystery and weight of truth itself.