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Out of Darkness · 2024
Cosmos Interstellar
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Not a painting about space — space thinking about itself, swirling into being from a dark ground.
“Cosmos Interstellar' balances chaos and clarity, each stroke a step through abstraction’s wild terrain.”
Cosmos Interstellar (2024) expands upon the ideas of its sibling work, Cosmos, but does so with greater scale and force. This 72 x 72 inch oil painting from the Out of Darkness collection feels like a portal — a gravitational field pulling you through the canvas and beyond.
At the center is a glowing oval, its edges diffused with lavender, silvery white, and ink-black. Radiating outward are arcs of motion and swirling fogs of paint that ripple with energy. The brushwork is energetic yet refined, suggesting matter swirling through time. Unlike Cosmos, which hums in stillness, Cosmos Interstellar spins.
I created this piece after reading about gravitational waves and deep space echoes — not to illustrate physics, but to reflect the awe they inspire. This is a painting of movement and emergence. Of something vast being born.
The work shares kinship with Julie Mehretu’s layered abstractions and Mark Rothko’s mystical fields, bridging frenetic gesture with spiritual silence. Like them, I’m less concerned with depiction and more with the emotional impact of scale and color.
Cosmos Interstellar is an invitation to travel — not outward, but inward. Into the part of ourselves that still believes in wonder.
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
- Low ambient light amplifies the glowing center
- Daylight
- The antique gold turns hotter under west light, and strong direct sun flattens the ink-black ground it needs to glow against. Give it an east wall or a dim room away from the glass.
Lives best in
Hotel lobby 5/5
The gravitational vortex of muted whites spiraling against dark gloss commands a lobby at the scale lobbies demand, giving arriving guests a reason to stop before they reach the desk.
Living room 4/5
At six feet square, Cosmos Interstellar anchors a living room the way a fireplace does, pulling every sightline toward its luminous charcoal core and holding them there.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Out of Darkness
- Palette
- Ink Black · Charcoal · Antique Gold · Lilac Gray · Arctic White
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Bloom
- Texture4
- Form4
- Colour range4
- Palette3.3
- Contrast4.4
- Abstraction Quotient4.5
