Equilibrium

A young woman in a white top and rolled blue jeans sits barefoot on a stool whose legs rest on one balanced stone; she twists to glance back over her shoulder while touching a huge red peony. Columns of precariously stacked pebbles and egg-like stones flank her on both sides, and a small cat sits at the base looking up toward her.

Smooth oil paint renders the saturated red blooms against a soft pastel sky of pink and blue, with diffuse light and few hard shadows. The precarious stone towers and oversized flowers give the scene a surreal, dreamlike balance.