Jet Lag Across Skies

Jet Lag (2022) captures the feeling of being suspended between time zones — physically present, mentally adrift. Part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this 72 x 60 inch acrylic painting is a portrait of the invisible weight of transition. It is about fatigue, disorientation, and the strange beauty of liminal states.

The canvas sways with loose verticals, blurred bands of midnight blue, charcoal gray, and warm creams. Nothing aligns. Forms lean like buildings in motion or shadows caught in long exposure. The brushwork is loose, almost drifting. It captures the surreal blur between waking and dreaming.

This work was inspired by actual moments of jet lag — those quiet hours in unfamiliar hotel rooms, when the body rebels and the mind floats. Time becomes nonlinear. Thought becomes texture. The world is familiar and foreign at once.

In mood and rhythm, this piece finds kinship with the work of Richard Diebenkorn, especially his Ocean Park series, where spatial fields hum with internal logic and meditative drift. Like Diebenkorn, I’m interested in the space between motion and stillness — in paintings that reflect an unsettled but reflective mind.

Jet Lag isn’t about travel. It’s about what travel does to perception — the slippage, the haze, the delicate collapse of structure. It’s not lost. It’s hovering.

As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this painting echoes the fragility and resilience of rhythm — how even in our most disoriented states, life pulses on.