As the Dream Is Realized (Meet Me in Point Reyes)

2025, oil on linen, 20 x 16 x 1.5 in, aluminum floater frame

A simple motel keychain—an everyday object—turns into a talisman here, charged with longing, arrival, and the promise of a place that might change you. Suspended against a field of luminous blue, the key and fob float almost like an icon, shifted from something purely functional into something devotional. Its message, Meet me in Point Reyes, reads not just as a destination, but as an invitation: to show up fully, to slow down, to step into a different rhythm of time.

At the bottom, the phrase “The times are urgent, let us slow down” echoes an African saying written about by philosopher Bayo Akomolafe, suggesting that urgency isn’t answered by speeding up, but by paying attention. The painting becomes a small portal into another pace of life—one shaped by presence, quiet, and embodied experience. The key is literal, granting entry into a room, a night, a moment—and metaphorical: a key to belonging, to place, to transformation.

The long, dramatic shadow cast behind the ring traces a line between where you’ve been and where you’re going, catching the suspended moment in between. This is a painting about longing on the verge of being met—a dream about to cross into reality, the threshold between anticipation and arrival.