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Abstract Inquiry · 2023
Haze of Memory and Emotion
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Memory and emotion as weather — the haze that settles between what happened and what you feel about it.
Haze (2023) is an atmosphere more than an image — a meditation on ambiguity, breath, and the slow unraveling of clarity. At 48 x 48 inches, this acrylic painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection is a visual whisper: nothing sharp, nothing fixed, everything softly becoming.
The surface is layered with translucent whites, pale blue-grays, and gentle blurs of lavender and sand. Brushwork is slow and steady, fading one form into the next until no edge remains. The composition floats, like thought in the early morning or fog on the edge of memory.
I created Haze while thinking about the spaces between knowing and not knowing. The times when our vision — literal or emotional — is clouded, but still full of presence. The painting isn’t about getting through the haze. It’s about learning to sit within it.
This piece shares quiet resonance with J.M.W. Turner, whose late works dissolve form into light and motion. Like Turner, I’m interested in the feeling of perception more than the thing perceived.
Haze offers no focal point. That’s the point. It gives you space to drift, to pause, to not decide. It invites you to release control — to move through ambiguity with softness.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting honors the transient: not just mist and light, but the mind when it’s still rearranging itself, not yet resolved, but fully alive.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 5 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 8 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light preferred — oil layers shift through the day
- Daylight
- Spectral and pale grays barely shift with the hour, so it holds steady near glass. Bright direct sun is the one risk: the haze is subtle enough that glare can erase it.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Haze of Memory and Emotion earns a 5 in the living room because its four-foot field of spectral, deep, and pale gray rewards exactly the kind of unhurried, returning attention that living rooms invite, the absence of a focal point becoming a place to rest rather than a problem to solve.
Hotel lobby 4/5
A score of 4 reflects that the painting's slow, unresolved gray field reads with genuine presence across a lobby, though the longing it carries may be more intimate than a transient audience is prepared to meet.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Abstract Inquiry
- Palette
- Spectral Gray · Deep Gray · Pale Gray
- Weight
- About 22 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Samara
- Texture1
- Form4
- Colour range2
- Palette4.2
- Contrast2.6
- Abstraction Quotient-3
