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Melted Trooper | SIGNED PRINT
Year: 2020
Medium: Giclée Canvas Print, Signed and Numbered
Limited Edition of 100
Melted Trooper is the only original that survived the studio fire, found buried under a slab of the collapsed roof. Charred, marked, and altered by the event, the piece carries the physical imprint of destruction and the persistence of what refuses to disappear.
Painted during a period of corporate burnout, this work began as a self-portrait. The Trooper figure, partially dissolved, reflects a state of internal erosion — identity under pressure, structure breaking down, the controlled exterior starting to fail.
The melting form is not collapse alone. It is transition. A body losing rigidity. A system no longer able to sustain the weight it was built to carry.
The fire became an extension of that process.
What remained is not pristine. It is marked, fractured, and real. The survival of this piece is not symbolic — it is literal. And that changes its meaning.
Melted Trooper stands as a record of endurance. Of continuing after rupture. Of holding presence even when form is altered.
Following the fire, this image was released as a limited edition of 100 giclée canvas prints, the first body of work made available after the loss. Not as replication, but as continuation.
This work marks the threshold between what was lost and what began again.
Melted Trooper | SIGNED PRINT
Year: 2020
Medium: Giclée Canvas Print, Signed and Numbered
Limited Edition of 100
Melted Trooper is the only original that survived the studio fire, found buried under a slab of the collapsed roof. Charred, marked, and altered by the event, the piece carries the physical imprint of destruction and the persistence of what refuses to disappear.
Painted during a period of corporate burnout, this work began as a self-portrait. The Trooper figure, partially dissolved, reflects a state of internal erosion — identity under pressure, structure breaking down, the controlled exterior starting to fail.
The melting form is not collapse alone. It is transition. A body losing rigidity. A system no longer able to sustain the weight it was built to carry.
The fire became an extension of that process.
What remained is not pristine. It is marked, fractured, and real. The survival of this piece is not symbolic — it is literal. And that changes its meaning.
Melted Trooper stands as a record of endurance. Of continuing after rupture. Of holding presence even when form is altered.
Following the fire, this image was released as a limited edition of 100 giclée canvas prints, the first body of work made available after the loss. Not as replication, but as continuation.
This work marks the threshold between what was lost and what began again.