23”w x 50.5”h x 11”d

Wall mounted mixed media triptych, 2025

$2,050

Gaia Undone is a wall-mounted painting/sculpture triptych merging portraiture, architecture, and dreamlike symbolic objects into a charged narrative of vulnerability and imbalance. At its center is a painted portrait of Gaia rendered in layered, gestural strokes of pinks, blues, sparking with energy. Her face emerges and dissolves at once. Tears cut through the surface, signaling grief, endurance, and witness rather than collapse.

Surrounding the portrait are house forms that radiate outward, suggesting communities, systems, or constructed identities. Some of these structures sprout antler-like extensions, subtly referencing gender, fertility, power, and territorial markers while blurring distinctions between human, animal, and built environments. Painted branches and wooden roots pierce and support the composition, functioning as both lifelines and intrusions; natural systems forced to bear the brunt of human architecture.

A bow and arrow extend vertically, introducing tension and potential violence, but also direction and agency. The arrow feels suspended in time, emphasizing precarity rather than action. Camouflage webbing drapes across the upper portion, evoking concealment, militarization, and humanity’s attempt to manage or mask ecological damage.

Together, these elements form a hybrid altar or warning structure. Gaia Undone speaks to ecological rupture, gendered power structures, and the fragile balance between protection and exploitation. The work asks viewers to confront their role within these interwoven systems, where care, harm, and survival coexist in uneasy proximity.