The Pond

Abstract Reflections: The Pond as Metaphor

This series of paintings takes the pond as both subject and metaphor, a site of reflection, opacity, and transformation. Unlike the vastness of ocean or horizon, the pond is intimate and enclosed, a contained ecology where surface and depth co-exist. In these works, painterly layers suggest the shifting interplay between light and water, surface and depth, visibility and concealment. The pond thus becomes a metaphor for perception itself; at once reflective and opaque, revealing and withholding.

Art historically, the series extends conversations initiated by abstraction’s dialogue with landscape, yet reframes them through a language of intimacy and interiority. The works recall the meditative restraint of Agnes Martin, while also aligning with Eva Hesse’s sensitivity to fragility and process. They also gesture toward feminist re-readings of abstraction, where water and reflection operate as counter-images to the heroic verticality of modernist painting. In privileging subtle modulation, translucency, and an atmosphere of quiet reverie, these works move away from the monumental and toward the domestic, the bodily, the reflective.

In this context, the pond functions not simply as motif but as a conceptual framework. It is a site where temporality slows, where perception becomes layered, and where abstraction carries the resonance of memory and embodied experience. These paintings invite the viewer into this suspended space, reflective, fluid, and shimmering with possibility.