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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2022
Fabric Over Stars
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The sky behind the sky — fabric as the material between us and the stars, atmosphere as what we're actually seeing when we look up.
Fabric Over Stars (2022) is a meditation on veiling — the quiet power of covering, protecting, and revealing through layers. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 95 x 75 inch mixed media canvas explores the intimacy of surface and the mystery beneath it.
The painting suggests a vast sky cloaked in gauze. Textures ripple across the canvas like woven cloth, obscuring but not erasing the depth below. Specks of metallic pigment flicker underneath translucent washes, hinting at a galaxy just out of reach — hidden, not lost.
I created this piece thinking about protection — of dreams, of memory, of emotion. How we sometimes drape ourselves in metaphor to survive the brilliance of vulnerability. The fabric is a gesture of care.
Fabric Over Stars shares kinship with the work of El Anatsui, whose sculptural tapestries made from discarded materials transform surface into cosmos. While my materials are more painterly, the impulse is the same: to turn texture into meaning, and concealment into wonder.
The color palette is grounded in twilight — silvers, muted purples, dusky blues. It’s a nocturne. A hush. A whispered question about what we’re willing to see.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting exists in the tension between covering and cosmos. It asks: What lies beneath the surface? And what kind of starlight survives, even under the weight of fabric?
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 10 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 10 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Muted purple and dusky blue hold steady as the day changes. The silver passages respond most, brightening in raking light and dimming in shade; keep direct glare off so large a surface.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Fabric Over Stars earns a 5 here because its 8-by-6-foot silver and dusky blue field needs a room built around conversation and rest, and the shifting metallic surface rewards the kind of slow, repeated looking that only a living room allows.
Hotel lobby 5/5
A 5 in the lobby because the muted purple and silver scale commands a double-height atrium without shouting, and arriving guests moving past it at different hours will catch the metallics reading entirely differently in morning versus evening light.
Details
- Size
- 8 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Silver · Muted Purple · Dusky Blue · Metallic
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Sprig
- Texture4
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette3.6
- Contrast2.6
- Abstraction Quotient4.5
