In The Graveyard Shift, I wanted to capture the solitary exhaustion, quiet focus, and eerie atmospheric weight of working through the dead of night into the pre-dawn hours.
The composition is split into heavy nocturnal zones, anchored by a deep obsidian base that transitions into a fiery central band of intense vermilion red and deep rust, offset against cold slate-blue scrapes and a bruised purple-violet sky along the top. Heavy, impasto paint application and broad, horizontal squeegee drags carve rough textures across the paper, creating a dense, friction-filled rhythm of late-night glare and shadow that draws the viewer straight into the midnight hustle.
Working in oil on paper, the absorbent texture grounds the heavy paint layers while allowing the rough, energetic tool marks to stand out with raw intensity. The Graveyard Shift is about that silent, solitary grind—where the rest of the world is asleep and time moves to its own heavy beat.
