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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2022
My Planet in Abstraction
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The planet as personal — your world held in atmospheric abstraction, the overview that is also the interior.
My Planet (2023) is a declaration — not of ownership, but of intimacy. At 108 x 84 inches, it’s one of the largest works in the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, and it unfolds like a personal cosmos. This isn’t a painting of Earth, or Mars, or anything literal. It’s a painting of the world within — radiant, chaotic, orbiting its own logic.
The composition is expansive yet contained, with orbs, elliptical fields, and drifting layers of color floating across a luminous background. Hues of teal, orange, violet, and smoky gray coexist without hierarchy. They drift. They gravitate. The surface pulses like a solar system of moods.
I painted this as an act of claiming space — both external and emotional. It’s a planet of memory, of feeling, of perception. Everything you see is a trace of something felt deeply, but never spoken.
The work finds conceptual affinity with Julie Mehretu, particularly in the way abstraction becomes a map — not of cities or histories, but of internal landscapes. Like Mehretu, I’m interested in how movement, layering, and atmosphere can suggest the geography of selfhood.
My Planet doesn’t rotate around a sun. It radiates from within. And in that glow is a gentle power — a reminder that our inner worlds are vast, dynamic, and worthy of exploration.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting is an invitation to dwell in your own gravity — to feel your way across your own atmosphere.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 10 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 10 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- A planet-sized canvas of deep gray, cobalt and bronze that reads steadily through the day. Its strong contrast holds against a bright window; the orange passages warm a little as afternoon sun comes in.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
My Planet in Abstraction scores a 5 here because its nine-foot spread of deep gray, burnt sienna, and cobalt turns the living room wall into a focal cosmology, giving the space a center of gravity that pulls conversation and contemplation toward it.
Bedroom 4/5
The score is four because the painting's radiating umber and cobalt read as protective rather than restless at night, wrapping the room in planetary depth, though its 65-pound physical presence and near-ten-foot span demand a wall most bedrooms cannot spare.
Details
- Size
- 7 × 9 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Deep Gray · Shadowed Umber · Brown · Burnt Sienna · Cobalt · Bronze · Silver White
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spray
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range5
- Palette3.4
- Contrast4.1
- Abstraction Quotient4.5
