The Calling Ii Mixed Media Figurative Painting

The work unfolds like a dream-fable: a key poised before a warm, rising orb while the blue trunks of trees form a quiet colonnade, turning the forest into a sanctuary of thresholds and permission. Patterned surfaces—lace-like reds, tiled blues, and floral ornament—flatten depth into tapestry, suggesting memory as something woven rather than recalled, dense with repeating motifs and half-hidden signals. The lone, mask-like face at the bottom anchors the scene as an inner witness, its single eye holding the viewer in a state between innocence and knowing, as if the act of “unlocking” is inward, tender, and irreversible. Light here is not naturalistic but symbolic—golden and calming—offering a small, radiant promise amid richly layered, guarded spaces.