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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2022
Blue Nugget
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Blue concentrated — the atmosphere at the moment it stops dispersing and holds itself in one dense, luminous form.
Blue Nugget (2022) is a study in compression and brilliance — a compact constellation of color, matter, and sensation. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 60 x 60 inch mixed media canvas holds a dense vibrational core inside a field of softness.
The painting centers around an irregular cluster — what I think of as a “nugget” — made from metallic textures, layered blue pigments, and embedded gestural forms. It doesn’t sit still. It hums. It floats like a celestial fragment, a thought crystallized before it slips into the unconscious.
The surrounding canvas is misty and quiet, composed of greys and silvers that seem to breathe. This contrast — radiant core against atmospheric drift — gives the painting its power. It feels like something small and sacred has condensed out of the fog of abstraction.
This work resonates with the sensorial investigations of Anselm Kiefer, particularly in the tactile density and the way material holds history. But Blue Nugget is less heavy, more suspended — as if light itself got caught in a mineral form.
The title came intuitively. “Nugget” suggests value, rarity, compact meaning. And that’s how this piece operates. It asks the viewer to look close, to sense density in space, to experience how something minimal can also be emotionally charged.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, Blue Nugget is an offering of stillness, weight, and wonder — a quiet force held within a storm.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 8 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Prussian blue and near-black hold their color, but contrast this low disappears in direct sun. Give it soft, indirect light, where the layered cobalt can gather toward its center and the texture still reads.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Blue Nugget earns a 5 here because its Prussian blue and oxblood core rewards the kind of slow, returning attention a living room invites, revealing new depth each time the morning or evening light shifts across its heavy texture.
Bedroom 5/5
The condensed, glowing core surrounded by shadowed umber and atmospheric drift makes this one of the few works in the collection that belongs above a bed, where it becomes something to wake to rather than something to decode.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Near Black · Shadowed Umber · Prussian Blue · Oxblood
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Wing
- Texture4
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette3.1
- Contrast1.2
- Abstraction Quotient2
