Exit Vectors: Warm Eyes, Cold Head

Prompt: A sleeping skull whose eye sockets emit dream-light, projecting impossible visions of radiance into the darkness. Creative Process: There was something hypnotic about the way light pooled in those empty sockets. i painted this after spending three nights in the paris catacombs, where i discovered that skulls have their own kind of phosphorescence. they absorb centuries of darkness until they begin to glow from within, like dying stars caught in calcium. the shadows seemed to breathe around this one, as if death itself was just another form of slow photography. it reminded me of those old vanitas paintings, except here mortality feels less like a warning and more like a lullaby..