Joan of Bubble

JOAN OF BUBBLE Acrylic & Collage on Canvas | 20" × 20" | 2025

She has survived two thousand years and she is absolutely done being serious about it.

A classical bust — marble, ancient, the kind of face that has spent centuries in museum corridors being regarded with hushed reverence — arrives here on a ground of blazing vermillion orange, a pink bubble floating beside her cheek with the casual, magnificent irreverence of someone who has earned the right to chew gum in the Louvre. A slash of neon yellow. A thick, sculptural sweep of teal acrylic applied with a palette knife and left exactly as it landed. Purple at the collar. The texture of the paint surface doing something the marble never could — being alive, being now, being completely unapologetic about both.

The collage element grounds the classical reference in the physical — cut, placed, committed to — while the painted marks around it refuse to be anything other than contemporary. The tension between the ancient face and the pop palette is not ironic. It is genuinely affectionate. This is what happens when history is loved rather than preserved.

Joan of Bubble. She blew it two millennia ago and she'll blow it again.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 20" × 20" original acrylic and collage on canvas
• Signed and dated 2025
• Ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Done being serious.