English poet Lord Byron was known for creating tragically estranged characters, which prompted the creation of the term "Byronic" to describe such romanticized yet ultimately flawed protagonists. It was this sense of solitude that I wanted to capture in this series from 2013. The pieces investigate the brooding emotions of the Byronic character. Using rich crimson and stark black I captured the melancholy world these characters inhabit. These works came out of a desire to deeply understand the hidden aspects of my psyche. Years later it was clear that this series really reflected my own fear of intimacy due to my childhood as a Yugoslav war refugee while at the same time painful yearning for a connection. I have since healed a lot, but this work captured something raw that I felt on my life’s journey.

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