Gold Branch I

A slender vertical canvas in enamel, Gold Branch I distills the organic authority of a single bough into something closer to meditation than decoration. The narrow proportions — thirty inches tall against fifteen wide — give it the quiet intensity of a Japanese screen compressed into a Western frame, its depth of three and a half inches lending it a sculptural presence on the wall. This is the kind of work that asks nothing of a room yet gives it everything: a focal point of restrained beauty that rewards sustained attention.