Something happened when you saw this. What was it?
Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2021
Layered Communications
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
What gets lost between sending and receiving — the atmospheric record of messages changed by everything they passed through.
Layered Communications (2021) is a visual exploration of how meaning builds, distorts, and dissolves over time. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic painting captures the intangible space between intention and reception — where language slips into atmosphere, and understanding becomes layered.
The painting’s surface is built up with semi-transparent washes, overlapping marks, and hints of textural residue. It mimics the way a conversation lingers — how words echo long after they’re spoken, often altered by memory, emotion, or silence. Color veils and blurred gestures suggest both clarity and confusion.
The palette is gentle: muted grays, washed-out blues, and faint blushes of warmth. Nothing shouts. Everything overlaps. This isn’t about noise — it’s about signal. The message may be faint, but it’s there, waiting to be felt more than decoded.
This work finds kinship with Cy Twombly, whose lyrical abstractions often read like fragments of conversations or memories. But where Twombly spirals into the romantic and mythic, Layered Communications is more subdued — grounded in the intimate, everyday difficulty of being understood.
Each layer feels like a page half-erased. A message revised. A feeling reframed. The painting doesn’t tell a story — it lives in the static between stories.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, Layered Communications invites the viewer to listen differently. Not with the ears. But with the body — to what is left unsaid.
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
- Mostly charcoal and icy gray, so it holds steady near glass; the dusty orange and oxblood are what warm as the afternoon goes on. East light keeps the messages cool and legible.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Layered Communications earns a 5 in the living room because its charcoal and icy gray atmosphere holds a conversation without demanding one, and the oxblood and dusty orange undertones warm slowly, the way an evening does.
Bedroom 4/5
The longing embedded in those unresolved layers of tarnished silver and charcoal is precisely the emotional register a bedroom can carry, though the dark gloss passages may read as restless under tungsten light rather than still.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 4 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2021
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Charcoal Gray · Icy Gray · Tarnished Silver · Dark Gloss · Dusty Orange · Ultramarine · Oxblood
- Weight
- About 22 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture3
- Form3
- Colour range4
- Palette3.1
- Contrast3.4
- Abstraction Quotient4.5
