Breaking Through (2025) metamorphosis

Breaking Through (2025) metamorphosisOil on canvas 30 x 40 in A single arm breaches the picture plane to touch the reclining figure, collapsing the space between viewer and subject. The gesture hovers between tenderness and control, raising the question of whether the body is being held, guided, or claimed. The work confronts the uneasy boundary between observer and observed the moment when looking becomes contact. Provenance Artists Studio

A haunting piece from Halin’s time in Guanajuato

Oil on canvas36 x 48 in

Oil on canvas (diptych)48 × 62 in

The gesture hovers between tenderness and control

but the feeling of it — the weight of the shade

A nude female figure lies half-buried in a churned landscape of earth and debris

and flying

but the goats retreat to a ribbon of shade beneath eucalyptus trees

You can nearly taste the dust

Oil on canvas32 x 32 in

raising the question of whether the body is being held

binding the intimate and the monumental into a single moment