Blue Desperation (2019) Halin de RepentignyOil on hardboard, diptych 24 x 40 in A contorted mummified figure lies before the suggestion of the city it once belonged to. The rigid, desiccated form evokes a life sealed and silenced, while the colourful urban blocks behind it underscore the distance between human survival and societal indifference. The painting confronts the violence of abandonment not in the moment of death, but in the moment of being forgotten. Provenance Artists Studio
The composition draws a direct parallel between industrial disturbance and the violation of the land itself — the human form becoming landscape
A blaze of midday light floods the narrow streets of Guanajuato
The diptych divides not just the canvas but the forces of the landscape itself — ice against stone
sunlit cityscape
The painting captures that fleeting moment when the river recedes just enough to reveal the choreography of land underneath
turning the engineered chaos of the dam into a shifting
where glacial blues collide with exposed volcanic rock
Painted during the brief autumn window when the Klondike catches fire with colour before the first snow settles in
A stand of poplars rises from a blaze of undergrowth
working the river with practiced focus while a bear observes from the bank
A lone rider makes their way across fractured ground with a single pack horse in tow
recording the landscape in a moment of violent change
