A Heart Beats Within — From Study to Meaning

Abstract mixed media painting of a human-like form surrounded by pipes and grids, rendered in red and blue tones with a glowing central heart.
A Heart Beats Within — mixed media and gouache on paper, 5 × 7 in., 2025.

“I paint with my back to the world.”
— Agnes Martin

 

A Heart Beats Within began as two bookmarks — a small experiment in hot and cold colors and the discipline of straight lines. Over time, they grew into a single image, a kind of reunion — part study, part meditation.

What began as practice became a reflection on structure and color — a quiet commentary on the merging of the mechanical and the self.