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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Colored Fireballs
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Fire as plural event — not one flame but many, not one color but several, the atmosphere of combustion held at full scale.
Colored Fireballs (2023) is an eruption — not of destruction, but of color, vitality, and energy uncontained. At 72 x 72 inches, this acrylic painting is one of the most vibrant in the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, capturing the fleeting brilliance of moments too intense to last.
Across the surface, orbs of saturated pigment explode outward: crimson, lemon yellow, neon pink, cobalt, and acidic green. Each burst is layered with velocity — trails of motion, echoes of energy. The background recedes in cool grays and black, offering contrast and calm, like deep space pierced by fireworks.
I created this piece in a moment of creative exuberance — the kind of instinctual flow that feels like dancing with the brush. The fireballs are not literal. They are sensations. Expressions of joy, friction, chaos, and clarity all colliding in one expansive gesture.
This work finds kinship with the explosive energy of Yayoi Kusama, particularly her early abstract paintings filled with dots and neural bursts. Like Kusama, I see repetition and impact as ways to reach the infinite.
Colored Fireballs doesn’t follow a narrative. It celebrates impact — the beauty of a mark made with full force, the joy of color set free. It is loud, but it also listens. It pulses with presence.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece invites you to feel before you think. To surrender to the heat and hue of the moment.
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
- Madder, wine and mustard burn brighter under west-facing glass, and the smooth surface gives the sun little to break against. Hang it on a north or east wall to keep the fires distinct.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Colored Fireballs earns this room completely: the six-foot canvas pulls every mustard and deep madder burst into conversation with daily life, and the mood-5 aliveness makes a living room feel inhabited rather than decorated.
Bedroom 4/5
The canvas carries enough moss and sea blue to cool its own fever at rest, but evening light will ignite the madder and mustard again, so the fit depends entirely on whether the sleeper wants that charge at the end of the day.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Dark Gloss · Deep Madder · Deep Wine · Charcoal Gray · Mustard · Moss · Sea Blue
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Wing
- Texture2
- Form3
- Colour range4
- Palette2.3
- Contrast3
- Abstraction Quotient3
