{"product_id":"ascension-2008-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","title":"Ascension, 2008 Oil on Canvas by Stacy Stewart Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAscension\u003c\/em\u003e arrests the eye before the mind can intervene. A monumental oil on canvas — 52\" × 70\" — it commands space with the quiet authority of a work that knows exactly what it is: a meditation on the threshold between the seen and the unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith's hand moves between two worlds simultaneously. The composition draws from the soaring geometry of the Eiffel Tower's interior staircases — iron lattice dissolving into light — rendered through his signature \u003cem\u003eAbstractrealism\u003c\/em\u003e, where photographic memory and painterly intuition negotiate the same surface. What emerges is neither document nor dream, but something rarer: a visual experience that feels both witnessed and imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScattered across the canvas, stenciled squares of pigment — deliberate, luminous — interrupt the image like a signal breaking through static. They are pixels losing resolution, yes, but they are also something older: the rungs of Jacob's Ladder, angels ascending and descending between Heaven and Earth. Smith does not choose between the digital and the divine. He insists they are the same mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAscension\u003c\/em\u003e is from the artist's \u003cem\u003eResurrection\u003c\/em\u003e series, which explores those private, ineffable moments — the ones we either confess or keep — when experience exceeds explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOil on Canvas · 52\" × 70\" · 2008\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne-of-a-kind original. Shipping insurance is strongly recommended; please add it to your purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stacy Stewart Smith Enterprises, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59120883368017,"sku":"SSS-ASCENOILP-ORIG","price":80000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/9311\/7009\/files\/1.Ascension_Painting.jpg?v=1771693347","url":"https:\/\/stacystewartsmith.com\/it\/products\/ascension-2008-oil-on-canvas-by-stacy-stewart-smith","provider":"Stacy Stewart Smith","version":"1.0","type":"link"}