This painting is an homage to Moonstruck—specifically the opera scene, the full moon, La Bohème. That moment stayed with me long after the film ended.
She is inspired by Cher’s character, Loretta, imagined years later. The same openness is still there. Nothing guarded. Shoes off. Grounded. The emotion is fully inhabited.
I built her with intersecting planes because I needed something steady around that intensity. Structure lets the feeling remain present without overwhelming the image. The light above her reads like a quiet moon. It doesn’t announce itself. It simply exists.
A moment where feeling and form sit together.
In the studio, she does not stand alone. Across from her hangs Ronnie, built from the same language of planes, holding a different kind of presence. Together they speak to devotion held in structure.
A brief reflection on how this painting came to be can be found here.
