The Taste of Tears

Mixed media on white aluminum.

38x48x1"

This piece came from a place of emotional saturation—those moments when sadness doesn’t just sit in the mind, it seeps into the body. The Taste of Tears is about that raw, overwhelming feeling when grief or heartache becomes physical. It’s intimate and universal, and I wanted to give that sensation a visual form.
The materials were crucial to that expression. I used mixed media on white aluminum because I needed a surface that could hold weight but still reflect vulnerability. Aluminum is cold and hard—there’s something unforgiving about it—but the white base gave me a kind of silence to work against. It felt like working on a blank page that already had its own tension.
The abstract composition was instinctive. I wasn’t chasing realism—I wanted emotion first, form second. The two faces aren’t meant to be immediately recognizable. They’re tangled, layered, even a little chaotic. That’s what deep emotional connection can feel like, especially in sorrow—when your pain is wrapped in someone else’s, or when empathy becomes almost unbearable.

Ready to hang.