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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2024
Human Print
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The mark left without deciding to — atmosphere as the record of presence, the painting as evidence someone was here.
“Human Print' is a meditation on becoming—where color and texture open the doorway to inner sight.”
Human Print (2024) is an imprint of movement — a record of presence left behind in gesture and mark. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media canvas from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection captures human form not by depiction, but by impact. Fingerprints, palm smears, partial silhouettes — all trace the passage of body across surface.
The piece is layered with warm ochres, reds, pale gray, and soft black. Textures rise and fall like fossil impressions or cave walls. Paint has been dragged, pressed, and wiped. The effect is visceral — not violent, but intimate. Like touching memory.
I made Human Print during a time of re-grounding — of returning to my own physicality after long mental abstraction. The work became a dance of skin, breath, pressure. It holds the energy of presence — not posed, but passed through.
It finds kinship with Yves Klein’s anthropometries and Antoni Tàpies’ material bodies — works that let the trace replace the figure. Here, identity is not captured. It’s echoed.
Human Print is not a portrait. It is a residue. A reminder that we leave marks — and they are beautiful.
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 transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Warm ochre leads, so late western sun drives it hotter and lifts the red accent with it. An east or north wall keeps the pale gray atmosphere around the print cool enough to read.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Human Print earns its 5 here because a living room is where presence lingers, and the ochre and red handprint-ghosts on pale gray reward the kind of slow, repeated looking that only a personal space allows.
Bedroom 4/5
The somber mood and residue-as-presence theme settle quietly into a bedroom, where the pale gray ground and breath-like marks feel intimate rather than decorative, though morning light will shift the ochre toward something almost tender.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Warm Ochre · Red · Pale Gray · Soft Black
- Weight
- About 22 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture4
- Form3
- Colour range3
- Palette3.9
- Contrast3.7
- Abstraction Quotient4
