This is a layered portrait of a sleeping face wrapped in concentric circles of pure color and pattern. The eye is a burst of iridescent confetti quilled into a teardrop shape, surrounded by radiating bands of purple spirals, soft pinks, golden yellows, and cool greens. Each ring moves outward from the face, getting progressively warmer as the palette shifts toward coral and orange on the outer edge. The outermost frame is a repeating wave pattern in deep navy and periwinkle, anchoring the whole piece.
What makes this work is the restraint paired with boldness. The face itself sits quiet and contemplative in the center, drawn with delicate purple coils forming closed eyes and a subtle mouth. Around it, the artist layered coils so densely that some rings feel like solid bands of color, while others are broken into individual spirals that let light through. The stars scattered throughout add another dimension—some are tiny paper curls, some are printed elements tucked between the layers. The quilled rays shooting outward from the face read like energy or emotion radiating outward.
The piece works as both a meditative portrait and an explosion. It rewards standing close to trace each ring and what it's made from, but it also reads clearly from across the room as a confident, colorful whole. This is technical work disguised as simple—every curve had to be measured and glued down by hand to sit exactly where it does.
Canvas wraps this into something more sculptural. The texture of the canvas gives the already-dimensional quilled design another layer of physicality, so the radiating rings feel like they're actually climbing off the surface. Color wraps around the edges so the piece reads as a solid object from the side. Hung on a wall, it becomes a meditation focal point rather than just something to look at.
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This is a layered portrait of a sleeping face wrapped in concentric circles of pure color and pattern. The eye is a burst of iridescent confetti quilled into a teardrop shape, surrounded by radiating bands of purple spirals, soft pinks, golden yellows, and cool greens. Each ring moves outward from the face, getting progressively warmer as the palette shifts toward coral and orange on the outer edge. The outermost frame is a repeating wave pattern in deep navy and periwinkle, anchoring the whole piece.
What makes this work is the restraint paired with boldness. The face itself sits quiet and contemplative in the center, drawn with delicate purple coils forming closed eyes and a subtle mouth. Around it, the artist layered coils so densely that some rings feel like solid bands of color, while others are broken into individual spirals that let light through. The stars scattered throughout add another dimension—some are tiny paper curls, some are printed elements tucked between the layers. The quilled rays shooting outward from the face read like energy or emotion radiating outward.
The piece works as both a meditative portrait and an explosion. It rewards standing close to trace each ring and what it's made from, but it also reads clearly from across the room as a confident, colorful whole. This is technical work disguised as simple—every curve had to be measured and glued down by hand to sit exactly where it does.
Canvas wraps this into something more sculptural. The texture of the canvas gives the already-dimensional quilled design another layer of physicality, so the radiating rings feel like they're actually climbing off the surface. Color wraps around the edges so the piece reads as a solid object from the side. Hung on a wall, it becomes a meditation focal point rather than just something to look at.
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