Like a valiant pirate who mischievously steals the vast wooden ship, Victor Grasso wittingly captures and seduces our wayward imagination with his grand naturalistic themes, majestic female muses, and dark realistic style. Scrolling down my newsfeed, I stumble across Grasso’s stunning work that prompts me to three actions. Like. Follow. Share. I’m reminded of the pleasures in our social media age, and discovering great artists that would otherwise remain unknown to me. I’m mesmerized, post after post, by the progression of his latest creation “She Crab”. At first she is raw, like the shellfish caught at sea, now prepared and adorning her. Slowly, breathtakingly, the umber rawness transforms into an illuminated realness. A reality that can only be conveyed with a lens. But these are the meaningful, hyperreal brushstrokes of Grasso. Layers of oil paint in umber, ochre, cadmium red,