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Series: Duality of Transformation
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 12”x12”
Framed original mixed media oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas. Ready to hang.
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The Dark Phases
The Story Behind Phase I – V (Dark)
We live our lives in phases—seasons of becoming, releasing, waiting, and returning. This series was born out of that awareness. Five simple but powerful moments in the cycle of the moon, each one captured in soft layers of mixed media and finished in oil on deep black backgrounds.
These paintings are quiet but bold, much like the rhythms they represent—the ones woven into nature, the sky, our bodies, and our lives. They speak to the way things shift and change, yet remain part of something steady and greater than ourselves.
For me, the Phases represent more than just the moon—they mark a deeply personal rhythm of my own life:
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The years I spent searching for meaning.
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The slow return to faith after seasons of doubt.
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The way motherhood reshaped me in cycles of surrender and renewal.
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The sacred reminder that even when we can’t see the full picture, light is still moving.
The Dark Phases stand alone in their quiet strength but are also designed to be paired, mixed, and matched—both with each other and with their sister series, the Light Phases. Whether you choose a single moment or display several together, these works invite you to reflect on the beauty of change, the constancy of creation, and the unseen rhythms that hold us all.
Part of The Firmament Collection, this mini-series carries the same rich tones as the larger body of work—blacks, soft greys, and subtle highlights—echoing the beauty of the night sky, dawn, dusk, and twilight.
The Phases remind us that life is rarely linear. We move through darkness and light, full and empty, known and unknown. And through it all, there is beauty to be found—one phase at a time.
