A sweeping diptych rendered in gouache and watercolor, Ida Ekblad's *Belly of the Blazing Mountain* pulses with raw, gestural energy, its surfaces alive with volcanic bursts of color and urgent mark-making. The work evokes the smoldering interior of a landscape in flux, where molten forms and fluid washes of pigment collide and merge across the two panels. Ekblad's visceral handling of the water-based mediums conjures a sense of heat and pressure from within, as if the paper itself strains to contain the force beneath.