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Black & White · 2023
Moving Through Space and Time
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The body in time — monochrome holding the trace of movement through the most fundamental coordinates there are.
Moving Through Space and Time (2023) is a meditation on passage — a painting about transition, expansion, and the invisible force of continuity. This 60 x 60 inch acrylic on canvas work belongs to the Black and White Collection, and it offers not just an image, but an experience of motion.
The composition is kinetic but soft. Bands of cobalt blue, dusky rose, and interstellar black stretch across the surface like orbit lines or dream paths. Specks of gold drift like distant stars. Brushstrokes vary in speed and scale, creating a rhythm that suggests travel — not across terrain, but through thought, breath, and moment.
I created this painting while contemplating the idea of duration — how time isn’t linear, but layered. In it, I tried to paint not where I was going, but how it felt to move. It’s not a map. It’s a mood.
Moving Through Space and Time echoes the cosmic abstraction of Vija Celmins, though it leans more toward gesture than replication. Like Celmins, I’m drawn to space not for its emptiness, but for its emotional magnitude — the awe it evokes.
This painting doesn’t rush. It drifts. It holds presence while allowing change. It invites the viewer to step into motion and feel its weightless gravity.
As part of the Black and White Collection, it becomes a meditation on scale — how vastness can feel intimate, and how stillness can carry speed.
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
- Any lighting — monochrome palette is lighting-agnostic
- Daylight
- Graphite and pale gray carry no warmth for the sun to push, so this one reads the same at nine in the morning as at five. Near glass, it simply holds.
Lives best in
Hotel lobby 5/5
At five feet square, the lilac-gray and charcoal tones read as both arrival and departure, giving a lobby exactly the sense of transit it needs without resorting to color or noise.
Office 5/5
The compressed palette, all lilac gray to graphite black, removes every distraction a busier work would introduce, letting the painting hold authority in the room without competing with the work inside it.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Black & White
- Palette
- Lilac Gray · Graphite Black · Charcoal Gray · Pale Gray
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–8 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture2
- Form4
- Colour range1
- Palette4
- Contrast4
- Abstraction Quotient5
