Resurrection Mixed Media Collage

Resurrection is a mixed-media collage that embodies the slow, profound return of life after cancer and trauma. Built through dense repetition, the surface is layered with drawn forms echoed again and again over expressive painted marks. This visual insistence mirrors the cellular and spiritual entanglement of healing—life reentering the body not all at once, but through cycles of renewal, recognition, and persistence.

The repeated elements suggest cells, fragments, and memories rebuilding themselves, emphasizing that recovery is not linear but cumulative. Each mark feels like a breath, a pulse, or a signal—evidence of the body remembering how to live. The layering creates both tension and cohesion, reflecting the simultaneous fragility and strength present in post-trauma regeneration.

Color operates as an energetic language throughout the piece. The expressive reds in the background invoke the root chakra, symbolizing safety, survival, and grounding after threat. Yellow emerges as the solar plexus, the reclaiming of personal power, agency, and selfhood—physically, mentally, and spiritually. These warm fields hold the composition, asserting stability and embodied presence.

Together, these chromatic and symbolic elements generate an atmosphere of regeneration. 

Resurrection is not about a return to what was, but the emergence of something altered yet alive—rebuilt from within, re-voiced, and re-claimed. The piece stands as a testament to healing as an act of becoming, where body, spirit, and identity rise together.

Woven through the work are blues, representing the throat chakra and the reclamation of voice. This blue energy speaks to articulation after silence—naming pain, survival, and transformation. It signals the shift from endurance to expression, from internal struggle to outward truth.

2025, 30x20 on illustration board.