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Emerald Bloom

2026

Medium

Acrylic Paint

Dimensions

36”x96”

Price

Price on request

“Emerald Bloom” reimagines Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam through a modern lens of faith, temptation, beauty, and human contradiction. At the center, Benjamin Franklin watches silently as two hands reach toward one another — God’s hand on the right and Adam’s hand on the left — echoing the iconic moment where divine life is passed into man. God’s hand is filled with symbols of purity, peace, love, and higher intention, while Adam’s hand carries the marks of human nature: money, desire, ego, temptation, chaos, and sin. The near-touch between them becomes more than creation — it becomes the moment where innocence, free will, and human weakness begin to bloom. Franklin’s presence adds an American layer to the work, tying together currency, invention, ambition, and the moral cost of progress. Against the grayscale portrait, vivid color and street-inspired markings break through like a bloom of modern energy — beautiful, chaotic, and alive. Bold, symbolic, and layered with meaning, “Emerald Bloom” explores the tension between divine intention and human nature, asking what grows from the first spark of creation.