Poppies

Two poppies flare out of pure black, petals built in layered reds and pinks with a bright bruise of gold at each center. All the drama of a much larger painting compressed into 5×5 — light, bloom, and dark, nothing else in the room.

• Oil on canvas · 5 × 5 in (12.7 × 12.7 cm) · 2024
• Original · 1 of 1 · now in a private collection