Howl
Oil on panel
16” x 160” inches (8 panels - 16 x 20 inches each)
2025-26
Howl is a set of paintings in eight parts, unfolding as a single horizontal register, recalling the logic of a film strip - frames advancing, slipping, and bleeding into one another. These oil on panel paintings were conceived during my time at the Pioneer Works residency, while learning darkroom processes and experimenting with Super8 filmmaking.
Interested in the meeting point between the sublime image, and the inherent ruin in it, the works allude to landscape without ever settling into it. Shadow and light pulse across the sequence, images collapsing and re-forming as they shoot laterally with a quiet persistence. Ultimately, the movement feels orbital rather that linear: a passage through shifting terrain, that curves back towards its beginning, like an animal’s long cry in the dark.