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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2024
Jungle Entanglement in Color
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The jungle's actual logic — entanglement as the natural order, color as the density of living things that have no interest in giving each other space.
“Jungle' lets the unknown speak softly, inviting us into a landscape of shifting truths.”
Jungle (2024) is a sensory map — a layered, energetic abstraction of wildness, vitality, and entanglement. At 72 x 48 inches, this acrylic painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection doesn’t depict a jungle, but immerses you in its logic: the overlapping, the chaos, the symphony of the living.
The composition is dense with motion. Sharp lines cut through thick patches of green, maroon, teal, and acid yellow. Drips, smudges, and overpainting form a visual thicket. There is no background — every inch competes for foreground, every gesture interrupts another. The surface teems.
I created Jungle during a time when my thoughts felt unruly, fecund, urgent. The studio became a forest of ideas — too many, too fast. Rather than fight the density, I painted it.
This work finds rhythm with Joan Mitchell’s abstract gardens and Cy Twombly’s graffiti-like bursts. Like them, I allowed intuition to lead. Every mark is both path and blockage.
Jungle asks the viewer to look, then look again — not for meaning, but for movement. It doesn’t offer orientation. It offers immersion.
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
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Moss and malachite green are cool enough to hold steady, but the contrast is soft, so direct sun can melt the entanglement into one green. Filtered or indirect daylight keeps the layers apart.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Jungle Entanglement in Color earns a 5 here because a living room is the one domestic space that can absorb its full 4 by 6 feet of competing moss and malachite, letting the density work as immersion rather than pressure.
Bedroom 4/5
The malachite and moss palette reads cool and close in morning light, which is welcome, but the painting's refusal to offer any resting point, every inch pushing forward, makes sustained cohabitation tiring for a room meant for stillness.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Finish
- Epoxy over acrylic. The resin lifts the color off the canvas and holds it forward, so the surface deepens as the light moves across the room.
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Moss · Moss · Malachite Green
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Wing
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range4
- Palette5
- Contrast1.8
- Abstraction Quotient1.5
