“Pennies” is more than a painting; it’s an odyssey. Many months in the making, this 48" x 72" oil on canvas represents a journey through imagination, discipline, and devotion to craft. What began as a study of copper and light evolved into something far more expansive: a meditation on value, time, and transformation itself.

This piece asks what it truly means to be rich, not in the narrow sense of currency, but in the deeper sense of legacy. Each coin reflects both the glimmer of material worth and the quiet inheritance of perseverance, ingenuity, and will. It considers what we pass down beyond money: the lessons, the resilience, the creative spark that propels us to transcend circumstance and strive for mastery.

Pennies is both beauty and beast, a giant jewelry box of gleaming metals and shifting light. Its surface shimmers like an alchemist’s dream, where copper becomes gold and repetition becomes rhythm. The embossed white charcoal does more than delineate each circle, it catches and scatters light across the canvas, transforming the work into a living, breathing mosaic. In daylight, the painting changes constantly, sunlight dancing from coin to coin in a choreography of movement and grace.

At its core, Pennies is about what is truly earned: not simply the finished piece, but the act of creation itself. It is about labor, persistence, and the sacred satisfaction of seeing something come alive under one’s hands. It is a celebration of imagination, endurance, and the joy of witnessing a work’s evolution, an homage to the human capacity to turn effort into art.

Both personal and universal, Pennies stands as a reminder that worth is not found in what we possess, but in what we pour ourselves into. It is a reflection on craft as currency, light as language, and the infinite value of becoming.