Flame On, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 in. / 45.72 x 45.72 cm.

Flame On, James Mariano, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 in. / 45.72 x 45.72 cm.

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?” ― Friedrich Nietzsche