Sappho
from Genomic
24" x 36"
acrylic on canvas
2007
Collection of Ryan Boudreaux, Houston, Texas
Exhibitions
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Genomic, November 2 - 23, 2007
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Red, June 26 - July 16, 2008
Houston, Texas, The Februaries, January 31, 2015
A Phase Two canvas in the Genomic Works sequence, Sappho unfolds in layered rhythm. A soft gradient opens the field—pink and blue, textured like breath. Net-like patterns and acidic abstract surfaces follow, threading ornament into rhythm. The yellow-green band interrupts with tactile density, grounding the drift.


Near center, a green-tinted photographic portrait appears—serious, suspended, emotionally ambiguous. To its right, the Tarot card: Death, rendered as a knight on horseback with the Roman numeral XIII. It’s a transformation. A signal of passage, not ending.


Lacework, floral patterning, and swirling lines close the canvas in a slow fade. Sappho hums as a field of poetic recursion, where presence flickers through texture, and meaning arrives like a lyric—half-remembered, fully felt.