Before Her Splash

Acrylic on canvas 2026
24 × 24 in.

This is the moment before consequences.

She's already jumped. No revision. No last-minute wisdom. Whatever hesitation she had didn't come with her.

The setting suggests calm — clean lines, control. Then she enters and disrupts all of it.

I built her with structured planes to hold the moment in place. Not the splash. Just this brief suspension where the decision is still in the air, even if she isn't.

Her reflection arrives first. Softer. Less certain. The water seems to know what's coming.

There's no posing here. Just commitment.

You don't get many moments like that.

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This painting began in conversation with a work by David Hockney.

David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967

Hockney’s A Bigger Splash captures the moment just after impact. The diver is gone. Only the eruption of water remains.

I was drawn to the instant just before.

In this version, the body is still visible. Gravity is certain. The splash has not yet arrived. The tension sits in the air between action and consequence.

The composition is simplified and structured through intersecting planes. Geometry holds the energy in place. The moment lingers longer than it could in real time.

Suspension here is not about motion. It is about awareness. The breath before something changes.

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