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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Captured Energy in Movement
In a private collection
Energy held long enough to be painted — red atmospheric force at the precise moment of capture.
Movement (2023) is not a depiction — it’s a performance. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media piece from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection captures motion not as subject, but as method. It’s a painting that breathes, pulses, and sways across its own surface.
The composition unfolds in sweeping gestures — arcs of charcoal, slashes of deep ultramarine, and trails of golden ochre dancing across a muted base. There are no fixed forms. Every element is in flux, like choreography frozen mid-rhythm. The marks aren’t placed; they arrive.
I created Movement in a moment of physical restlessness, when my thoughts couldn’t sit still and my body needed to lead. I didn’t begin with an idea. I began by moving — letting twine, brush, and pigment follow instinct. The painting is the record of that rhythm.
This work resonates with the expressive dynamism of Joan Jonas, whose performance-based practice transforms gesture into narrative. Like Jonas, I see movement as meaning — a way of thinking through motion rather than words.
Movement does not resolve. It resists stasis. It reminds us that the world doesn’t sit still, and neither do we. Even in quiet, there is trembling.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece captures motion as emotion — not directional, but energetic. It holds the feeling of being swept, carried, stirred.
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
- Deep madder and cadmium red run hotter under west light, and with so little contrast, strong sun can melt the field into one red. A north or east wall keeps the atmosphere layered.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Captured Energy in Movement earns a 5 here because its six-by-four-foot field of deep madder and oil-slick blue charges a living room wall with the same restless aliveness that a gathering of people brings to the space.
Bedroom 4/5
At six by four feet this is a large presence for sleep, but the deep ink grounds the madder's trembling energy enough that morning light can wake the room gently and evening light can pull the work toward something almost still.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 4 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
- 2023
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Deep Madder · Oil-Slick Blue · Deep Ink · Cadmium Red
- Weight
- About 45 lb
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture3
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette4
- Contrast1.6
- Abstraction Quotient4
