The solar panel grid is a promise.

A method of timekeeping stretched across a timeline—a lifespan—as you grow.

These paintings begin with a ground of powdered copper mixed with acrylic. Earth is extracted, crushed, suspended, and reused. Miracle-Gro plant food is sprayed over the surface, acting as a tarnishing agent.

Copper, a natural conduit used in plumbing and infrastructure, is often stolen and resold as scrap—a material of value and vulnerability. Miracle-Gro, a synthetic supplement, nourishes plants in collaboration with the sun. Together, they convert energy, enabling photosynthesis, which in turn supports all life.

Pain, pleasure, escape, touch.

Each small painting manifests as a material transcript of these sensations:

– The grid of a solar panel (touch)

– My partner’s breasts (pleasure)

– The moon, painted from personal photographs (escape)

– A bruise on my leg from a woodshop accident (pain)

Pain, pleasure, escape, touch.

Solar panels convert sunlight into electricity—just as Miracle-Gro alters copper’s surface through oxidation. One kind of energy becomes another. A transformation through synthetic intervention.

Synthetic synthesis?