Ode to Michelangelo comes from a fascination with the physical force of Michelangelo’s work—its mass, gesture, and almost impossible sense of life held within stone.

There is something deeply moving in that balance: the body made monumental, yet never stripped of fragility or emotion. This painting carries that influence into abstraction, where form is suggested rather than defined and softness gives way to weight, tension, and release.

It is less an homage to a particular work than to the feeling his work has always stirred—a profound sense of humanity, gravity, and grace.