Bonding with is a series of paintings about being on the cusp of adulthood, but remaining in the warmth of childhood. These characters fear growing up seeing all the threads of responsibility that pull on adulthood.
These paintings allow for those moments where you use your agency to to argue, to run, to watch the water boil over, and take in every pleasure or embrace letting go in a situation and enter the unknown.
Bodies melt into one another or repel as much distance as possible. They envelop, encourage, touch, embrace, wrestle, dance or fear being close.