Oil on canvas, 24”x48”

This painting is a surreal reflection of a night on the beach — a party scene that plays out somewhere between memory, imagination, and emotional truth. By emotional truth, I mean that the painting may not represent a literal or factual moment, but it captures how the night felt. The memories might be blurred, distorted, or imagined, but the feelings are real: the mood, the confusion, the highs, and the haunting beauty of it.

Inspired by my time living on Kauai, the setting takes place by the ocean, under a full moon. But this isn’t just a landscape. It’s a psychological space.

The figures are fragmented and symbolic. Some are guests. Some are me. The shadow figure in the bottom left, the face with big pink lips, and the ghostlike woman in the upper right all represent different versions of myself at different points in the night: present, removed, remembered, or watching from the outside. The mood is both celebratory and distorted as the energy of the party deepens into something dreamlike or maybe haunted.

Smoke, music, moonlight, and movement blend together. Everything starts to bend. Like many nights we try to forget or wish we could relive, this painting doesn’t aim for clarity. It leans into the beautiful confusion of it all.