“It’s a ridiculous idea, that you can’t respond to something unless it closely relates to your own life.' – Julian Schnabel, 2010

A monumental canvas painted in oil on sumptuous white velvet, this work by Julian Schnabel transforms an unlikely domestic material into a richly textured ground that absorbs and reflects light in unpredictable ways. The velvet's inherent luminosity lends the painted surface a tactile, almost reverential quality, blurring the boundary between painting and object. Housed in a frame chosen by the artist himself, the work asserts Schnabel's signature belief that art-making is an act of empathetic imagination that transcends personal experience.