Life Cycle-4, 2012. Four-panel installation painting with integrated HD video and charcoal drawing.
Life Cycle-4 is an installation painting composed of four overlapping panels — Childhood, Midlife, Old Age, and Death — each marking a distinct stage in the arc of a human life. The text shifts from “WHEN I WAS A KID” to “AGE/RAGE” to “PEACE,” mirroring the emotional progression from innocence to volatility to acceptance. Each panel contains a F.O.L.P. (Figure of Limited Predictability) paint event, forming the connective thread across the work.
The final panel incorporates two embedded elements: a charcoal drawing preserved beneath Den Glass, and a built-in HDTV playing Life Cycle, a 131-minute looping performance. Together they create a layered finale — memory preserved beneath the surface, time repeating above it. Viewed as a single work, Life Cycle-4 becomes a slow-moving portrait of existence.
Life Cycle-4
2012
Acrylic and oil on linen/canvas, integrated HD video (131-minute loop), charcoal on newsprint preserved beneath Den Glass
54 9/16 × 110 1/4 × 5 in / 138.59 × 280.04 × 12.7 cm
Sold as one complete installation.