Mixed Media Assemblage | 13 x 11 x 4 inches | Custom Framed
 
Be Still My Heart stages a lighthearted conversation between classical art and contemporary desire. Drawing on Titian’s Venus with a Mirror, a digitally reworked Venus leans from her gilded frame toward a necklace just out of reach.
 
Historical homage meets present-day sensibility in a meticulously built scene. The necklace — citrine, mother-of-pearl, freshwater pearls, and Murano glass with gold foil — rests on a velvet stand whose green recalls Titian’s palette, while the pearls’ soft blush echoes Venus’s skin.
 
The work invites reflection on how beauty, longing, and ornament persist across centuries — Renaissance reference made newly relevant in a contemporary narrative assemblage.
 
Materials: Digitally altered photography, Murano glass beads with gold foil, citrine, mother-of-pearl, freshwater pearls, dollhouse miniature, velvet, paper, wood
 
Framing: Custom shadow box with museum glass in a deep black wooden frame, produced in collaboration with Chevy Chase Art Gallery, Washington, DC.