30x30
Acrylic on gold leaf

There’s something very Taurus season about this piece. Still water. Slow observation. The luxury of not needing to perform. An alligator barely breaking the surface, fully present but almost invisible. Existing quietly inside its own world.

This painting came from thinking about restraint instead of excess. Letting negative space breathe. Letting the gold leaf become atmosphere, heat, reflection, silence. The subject sits low in the composition like a secret waiting to be noticed. The longer you look, the more alive it becomes.

The gold shifts constantly throughout the day, pulling warm honey tones in the morning and deeper bronze shadows at night. The water ripples feel suspended in time, somewhere between camouflage and emergence.

Part of the Land & Sea collection, this piece explores Louisiana wildlife through a lens of stillness, tension, beauty, and instinct. A reminder that disappearing is not always about hiding. Sometimes it’s about becoming fully embedded in your environment.