Roland's Task, 2026 [MISSING SIZE AND PRICE]

Balancing an impossible tower of faces and tangled forms upon its head, the lone figure in Roland’s Task appears caught in an eternal act of burden-bearing, ascending a staircase that leads nowhere visible. The image recalls mythic punishments and sacred labors alike—Atlas holding the heavens, Sisyphus climbing endlessly, medieval fools carrying the weight of kingdoms they barely comprehend. Yet there is also humor and tenderness in the absurdity of the scene, as though the figure persists not through strength, but through stubborn devotion to the task itself. The painting becomes a meditation on responsibility, creativity, and the strange things human beings choose to carry.

Reverse: Cyclopean creature dreamed into existence by a Dominican monk of the middle ages.