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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Originating Circle
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The first mark — circle as origin, the atmospheric point from which all other forms can proceed.
Originating Circle (2023) is a meditation on beginnings — on the quiet yet powerful geometry that repeats across time, life, and abstraction. This 36 x 36 inch acrylic painting from the Ephemeral AtmosphereCollection invites the viewer into a visual breath: one continuous, unbroken gesture.
At its heart is a single, imperfect circle — not drawn, but formed through layers. It emerges from a field of soft neutrals and shadowy violets, outlined by ghost traces of earlier marks. Around it, faint grids and radial echoes hint at motion and reverberation, like the start of a sound or ripple in water.
I created Originating Circle while thinking about cycles — not as repetition, but as evolution. Every return is also a beginning. The circle here is not a symbol of perfection. It’s organic. Lived-in. Alive with flaws and intention.
This work resonates with the minimalist poetics of Robert Mangold, whose line-based abstractions evoke architecture and meditation. Like Mangold, I’m interested in how the simplest form — the circle — can carry the deepest feeling.
Originating Circle isn’t loud. It’s foundational. It asks you to slow down, to witness the act of coming into form — to feel the circle not as object, but as moment.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece celebrates geometry not as control, but as continuity — a return to the gesture that begins everything.
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
- Dark and low in contrast, it is happiest out of direct sun, which flattens lampblack and twilight blue into one tone. In indirect daylight the rust circle reads clearly against the ground.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Originating Circle earns its five here: the lampblack and rust arc anchors a room built for long looking, and the twilight blue that bleeds into shadowed umber shifts across a day the way a living room itself does, morning to evening.
Bedroom 4/5
The somber palette and the circle's unresolved arc ask more of a sleeper than is wise, but the twilight blue carries enough quiet that the work can settle into the room if hung where morning light softens the rust.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 5 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
- Lampblack · Rust · Twilight Blue · Shadowed Umber
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spur
- Texture2
- Form1
- Colour range3
- Palette3.2
- Contrast2.1
- Abstraction Quotient2.5
