"Love and Loss Entwined" by Danny Gordo

Title: Love And Loss Entwined Artist: Danny Gordo Medium: oil on wood panel Year: 2025 Size: 18 x 24 inch (45.72 x 60.96 cm) Root and flesh merge, one no longer separable from the other. This male figure painting is a meditation on emotional inheritance and how the human form holds both memory and myth. The classical anatomy alludes to Greco-Roman ideals, but here those ideals are fractured. This is not a statue meant to endure as a symbol, but a living body frozen mid-process. The trunk suggests not just grounding, but entanglement, lineage, pain, and resilience that’s grown wild in the dark. The gesture of the torso hints at an internal twist, a tension between turning inward and reaching outward. The surface treatment is intentionally uneven. Skin is modeled with care, yet background elements pixelate or dissolve, breaking the realism and inviting symbolic interpretation. The squared-off limbs reference the unfinished or abandoned sculptures of antiquity—those objects that were on