Bohemia’s Redoubt, LNL, acrylic/canvas, 2026
Bohemia’s Redoubt
Heavy-body acrylic on canvas 20x20”
Bohemia’s Redoubt transforms the canvas into a fortified landscape—part sanctuary, part battleground. Drawing on my direct ancestral connection to 17th‑century cartographer Augustine Herman, I use scraping, compression, and hidden understructures to “map” a sovereign inner territory.
A central, monolithic cream form rises from deep crimsons and terracotta shadows, acting as a quiet fortress of light. Paint is deliberately forced to bunch and overflow the frame, enacting a visual rebellion against containment. This work is both shield and declaration: a constructed redoubt where pain is re‑engineered into protection, and where the act of painting becomes an architecture of survival and liberation.