Beyond The Veil
by Kevin A Phillips

Beyond The Veil moves through a liminal space: not quite here, not quite there. 

Fabric obscures. Liquids ripple and distort. Vines creep in, growing over what’s left behind. The same face shows up again, shifted in color, light, or mood, like it's caught in a loop or moving through different versions of itself.

Each painting holds a liminal moment: the pause before clarity, the blur of change, the stretch between who someone was and who they might become. What starts as something physical becomes expansive and intangible, sitting at the edge of transformation where form begins to dissolve and the next version of self hasn’t fully arrived.

This work is about that in-between feeling. About identity when it’s blurry. About waiting, shedding, becoming. You’re not just looking at a portrait, you’re catching someone mid-transformation.

The beauty here isn’t in perfection or resolution. It’s in the distortion. In the stillness before motion. In the way light filters through the mess.