Luna 2019

Allison Reimold made this haunting painting, Luna, with oil and acrylic. You can almost feel the artist coaxing it into being, a slow emergence from darkness. The canvas is filled with a blue-skinned woman holding a moth with an eye on its body, all beneath a full moon. It's like a dream, right? Luna could be a fairy tale, a myth, or just one of those late-night thoughts we have when sleep won't come. I mean, what was Reimold thinking, putting an eye on the moth? That eye, though, it feels like Reimold's saying something about seeing and being seen, about the secrets hidden in the night. The artist shares something deeply human, a mix of curiosity, fear, and wonder. Painting, like this, becomes a way of feeling our way through the dark, guided by intuition and imagination.