Persephone

Persephone stands in hushed stillness, a figure caught between realms. A single candle burns within her ribcage, intertwined with the pomegranate—the sacred emblem of life and death, of descent and return. The earth creeps to claim her, yet she meets the viewer’s gaze, a presence both anchored and untethered, straddling the threshold of worlds.

Rendered in oil on an 18 x 24-inch canvas and framed in wood, the painting is a quiet invocation of the mystical, a meditation on liminality, transformation, and the power that dwells between light and shadow.