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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2021
My New Heart
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The rebuilt thing — atmospheric record of a heart that remade itself, the feeling after transformation rather than during.
My New Heart (2021) is not a literal heart — it is a symbolic one. A container for transformation, rupture, and renewal. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 72 x 60 inch acrylic painting is a deeply emotional offering. A portrait of recovery.
Painted in layers of deep red, coral, and hints of ochre, the surface breathes. Forms pulse outward, not in the shape of an organ, but in the language of feeling. There’s a raw tenderness to the brushwork — loose, layered, sometimes interrupted. It speaks of wounds, yes, but also of healing.
This painting came from a personal moment of reset. Of turning inward. It felt as though something in me had broken, only to reveal something more honest beneath. My New Heart isn’t about returning to how things were. It’s about emerging into something different — unfamiliar, but alive.
The work resonates with the emotional vitality of Louise Bourgeois, who understood the body — and the heart — as sites of both trauma and regeneration. But while Bourgeois often worked through sculpture, this painting lets color and gesture do the holding.
There is nothing perfect in My New Heart. The forms don’t resolve. The reds don’t settle. And that’s the point. The painting exists in motion, as hearts do — beating, breaking, repairing.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece is a quiet revolution. A whisper that says: I am still here.
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
- Charcoal, steel blue and forest green keep the ground steady, but the deep red center and burnt sienna run hotter in west light. Give it a north or east wall if the red should stay measured.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
My New Heart earns its place here because the charcoal and umber ground slowly yields to neon green and sapphire, and a living room gives people the repeated, unhurried viewings that reveal this kind of gradual honesty.
Bedroom 4/5
The low mood score and heavy charcoal ground read as weight rather than rest in most bedrooms, but the tenderness in the burnt sienna repairs keeps it from tipping into oppression, earning a cautious yes.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 6 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2021
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Charcoal Gray · Deep Umber · Burnt Sienna · Metallic · Steel Blue · Forest Green · Neon Green · Sapphire Blue
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Wing
- Texture3
- Form3
- Colour range4
- Palette1.8
- Contrast2.9
- Abstraction Quotient4
