Drowning Out the Sound (Yonqi)

Drowning Out the Sound (Yonqi) is a contemporary original figurative painting exploring the collision between inner quiet and a world crowded with noise. A figure in profile faces a luminous pink-and-gold sky as a jagged rainbow waveform passes through the head, while dark smoke gathers below and swallows lift into open space.

Fish and water imagery move across the body, and a yellow sound device rests in the figure’s hands. The painting balances tension with release—the urge to escape the signal, the possibility of shaping it, and the freedom that appears when the noise finally gives way to flight.

Original painting by Idaho artist Suzanne DeSoleil
40" H × 16" W
Male Goddess Series