Blue Vallens
Mixed media on four canvases, 14" x 18"
Blue Vallens presents a fragmented portrait of Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens from Blue Velvet, rendered in the artist’s signature pop-art style and constructed across four separate canvases. The segmented format breaks the image into intersecting planes with hand painted roses, creating both visual tension and emotional distance.
Bathed in cool blues and layered textures, the figure appears suspended between vulnerability and control. Mechanical and patterned elements subtly emerge within the composition, referencing themes of objectification, surveillance, and power that run beneath the film’s surface. The physical separation of the canvases mirrors Dorothy’s fractured reality—caught between desire, fear, and performance. Blue Vallens invites the viewer to confront beauty and brutality as inseparable forces, where intimacy is unstable and identity is shaped by both longing and harm.
Blue Vallens
Mixed media on four canvases, 14" x 18"
Blue Vallens presents a fragmented portrait of Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens from Blue Velvet, rendered in the artist’s signature pop-art style and constructed across four separate canvases. The segmented format breaks the image into intersecting planes with hand painted roses, creating both visual tension and emotional distance.
Bathed in cool blues and layered textures, the figure appears suspended between vulnerability and control. Mechanical and patterned elements subtly emerge within the composition, referencing themes of objectification, surveillance, and power that run beneath the film’s surface. The physical separation of the canvases mirrors Dorothy’s fractured reality—caught between desire, fear, and performance. Blue Vallens invites the viewer to confront beauty and brutality as inseparable forces, where intimacy is unstable and identity is shaped by both longing and harm.
