Blockworks

This painting emerged following time spent with a close friend and physical therapist in Montreal, whose work centers on bodily repair, regulation, and long-term recovery. Rather than documenting a session or process, the painting registers what remained afterward: a shift in orientation, attention, and physical presence.

Two standing figures appear in close proximity, rendered in luminous yellow against a field of cool blues and dense green. Their forms are simplified to the edge of abstraction, held upright yet unresolved. One figure turns slightly, the other faces forward, but neither asserts control. What matters here is not interaction as action, but relation as steadiness.

The surface carries signs of immediacy—dragged strokes, partial erasures, uneven light—as if the bodies are still organizing themselves within the field. A narrow vertical space between the figures reads simultaneously as separation and shared ground. The painting resists narrative explanation, holding instead a quieter condition: co-presence, attunement, and the borrowing of stability from another.

Rather than depicting healing as progress or resolution, the work attends to something more elemental—the moment when the body begins to trust orientation again, and presence is restored before language or meaning returns.