Acrylic on Canvas | 36×48 inches | 2026 | Delicacies Series
Every city wall tells two stories.
The one on the surface — vivid, immediate, demanding attention right now. And the one beneath — older, partially obscured, visible only where the top layer has been scratched away, worn through, or simply refused to fully cover what came before.
Soft Serve is built exactly like that wall.
Beneath the luminous pink swirl of the ice cream cone — that perfect, impossible, summer-in-a-single-gesture spiral crowned with its maraschino cherry and rainbow sprinkles — lies an entire previous world. White impasto medium was applied over an existing painting in thick, gestural sweeps, then scratched back into while still wet, the tool dragging through the surface to reveal the colours and marks of the layer beneath. Lines emerge like graffiti tags half-painted over. Colour bleeds through like memory through time. The background becomes a palimpsest — that ancient term for a surface written over but never fully erased — a record of every layer that came before, visible beneath the present moment like the ghost of a previous tenant in a Brooklyn apartment.
And against all of that urban archaeological complexity — the cone. Golden, waffle-patterned, warm as afternoon light, holding its extraordinary pink cargo with the same quiet confidence it has always had. The most innocent and joyful of objects, floating in front of a surface that carries the weight of everything that came before it.
This is New York in a single image. The new thing blazing bright against the accumulated history of the city beneath it. The pleasure of the present tense against the palimpsest of the past. The ice cream cone — perfect, ephemeral, entirely of this moment — in front of a wall that has seen everything.
The technique — impasto medium applied thickly then scratched through with sgraffito to reveal the underpainted layer — gives the surface an extraordinary physical presence. This is not a flat painting. It is a textured, layered, tactile object that rewards close inspection as much as it rewards the view from across the room.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic with impasto medium on canvas ✦ 36 × 48 inches ✦ Created 2026 ✦ Part of the Delicacies series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping
The cone. The city. The layers beneath. All of it, yours.
Acrylic on Canvas | 36×48 inches | 2026 | Delicacies Series
Every city wall tells two stories.
The one on the surface — vivid, immediate, demanding attention right now. And the one beneath — older, partially obscured, visible only where the top layer has been scratched away, worn through, or simply refused to fully cover what came before.
Soft Serve is built exactly like that wall.
Beneath the luminous pink swirl of the ice cream cone — that perfect, impossible, summer-in-a-single-gesture spiral crowned with its maraschino cherry and rainbow sprinkles — lies an entire previous world. White impasto medium was applied over an existing painting in thick, gestural sweeps, then scratched back into while still wet, the tool dragging through the surface to reveal the colours and marks of the layer beneath. Lines emerge like graffiti tags half-painted over. Colour bleeds through like memory through time. The background becomes a palimpsest — that ancient term for a surface written over but never fully erased — a record of every layer that came before, visible beneath the present moment like the ghost of a previous tenant in a Brooklyn apartment.
And against all of that urban archaeological complexity — the cone. Golden, waffle-patterned, warm as afternoon light, holding its extraordinary pink cargo with the same quiet confidence it has always had. The most innocent and joyful of objects, floating in front of a surface that carries the weight of everything that came before it.
This is New York in a single image. The new thing blazing bright against the accumulated history of the city beneath it. The pleasure of the present tense against the palimpsest of the past. The ice cream cone — perfect, ephemeral, entirely of this moment — in front of a wall that has seen everything.
The technique — impasto medium applied thickly then scratched through with sgraffito to reveal the underpainted layer — gives the surface an extraordinary physical presence. This is not a flat painting. It is a textured, layered, tactile object that rewards close inspection as much as it rewards the view from across the room.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic with impasto medium on canvas ✦ 36 × 48 inches ✦ Created 2026 ✦ Part of the Delicacies series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping
The cone. The city. The layers beneath. All of it, yours.
