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Photo credit: Spike Mafford
In LUSH BILLOWING, Chapek explores water and atmosphere as shifting bodily forms, where droplets gather into mass and disperse again into air and movement. The painting moves between condensation and release, translating natural change into a visual language of flux.
Paint shifts from thin, translucent washes to thicker passages built with a palette knife, emphasizing material transformation. Chapek describes this work as an extension of her “billowing” language—where clouds and atmospheric formations become emotional states, held between substance and dissolution.