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In Uzumaki, painter Jed-Lee Metayer transforms personal grief into an act of spiritual renewal. What began as an intimate form of survival following the passing of his father, Reverend Marcel Metayer, has flourished into a visual language of healing. One that turns pain into purpose, and tribulations into transformation.

Metayer’s spirals emerge from luminous gradients of color, their rhythmic motion echoing both the turbulence of loss and the slow, deliberate return to peace. Each curve traces the inward and outward movement of faith: the fall, the questioning, the rediscovery of purpose. His mark-making, precise yet intuitive, mirrors prayer: a conversation between flesh and spirit, chaos and calm.

Rooted in Japanese aesthetics and Taoist philosophy, Uzumaki meditates on the harmony between impermanence and rebirth. Yet beneath its meditative surfaces runs the pulse of testimony of a son finding light through the residue of darkness, of belief reimagined through creation.

For Metayer, painting is devotion. The spiral is both wound and halo, a symbol of becoming whole again. Through these works, he invites viewers to step into the quiet orbit of transformation to witness what happens when grief is not silenced, but sanctified through color, rhythm, and faith.

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