The River’s Son (2025)

The canvas is mounted on a supported wooden frame and sold ready to hang. The painting is not framed. The edges of the artwork are painted. It is signed, titled, and dated on the back.

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Emerging from a world of fluid color and rebirth, The River’s Son reimagines the male nude as a contemporary myth — a queer counterpart to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.
Where Venus rises from the sea, born of divine beauty, the River’s Son steps out of a living current, embodying desire, self-awareness, and the sensual sanctity of the male form.

His pose recalls the poise of Renaissance ideals, yet his body radiates modern energy — painted in electric hues that dissolve the boundaries between flesh and landscape. He is not an object of worship, but a being in transformation: vulnerable, radiant, and defiantly alive.

In this painting, queer masculinity is not hidden behind shame or allegory. It stands reborn — luminous and mythic — claiming its place in the continuum of beauty that history once denied.
The River’s Son becomes both a tribute and a rebellion: a celebration of the body as nature’s own masterpiece, ever fluid, ever divine.