Oil Paint, Layered Glass and Mirror, Handcrafted Wooden Frames
3(4″x6″)
2025
In this triptych, a series of leaves are prominently featured to emphasize motifs from my previous work. The muted, dark colors amplify a sense of unrest, while their fragile tones convey both internal tension and instability. This draws attention to the vulnerable uncertainty captured, which reflects onto the rose-tinted surface below, as if the leaves themselves are caught in a quiet, unsettled charge.
Each leaf, dark, delicate, shifting, mirrors the turmoil beneath the surface—an unsettling charge in the air that is hard to define but impossible to ignore. These rose-tinted reflections speak of human vulnerability, the instability of our perceptions, and the quiet unrest that lingers within us—like static.
Rachael Kucken 