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Organic Movement · 2025
Plume of Violet Reverie
The Silent Lift of Color and Thread
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
Violet rising in silence — the plume that lifts without urgency, the reverie you don't notice entering.
In Plume of Violet Reverie (36" x 36"), violet radiance rises like breath through silence. This work is a smaller-scale meditation within my larger Organic Movement series, painted using oil-soaked cotton thread in place of brushes. Every gesture is guided not by bristles, but by tension, gravity, and the delicate choreography of filament and intent.
The background—a rich, oxblood field—grounds the composition in warmth and gravity. The violet plume, composed of hundreds of parallel thread passes, evokes not only motion, but memory. It is soft yet insistent. It reaches upward like an idea forming before it’s spoken.
This piece echoes the emotional quiet of Morris Louis, the gestural subtlety of Pat Steir, and the tactile innovation of Sheila Hicks. Yet its voice is uniquely mine—an exploration of how thread can render atmosphere and affect, not just form.
Collectors seeking contemplative work with a bold center will find Plume of Violet Reverie to be a meditative pause—still, textured, and quietly radiant.
Also available by private appointment through Jarrow & Goodman Gallery.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 5 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 8 ft or more
- Light
- Warm ambient light enhances organic palette — thread catches light beautifully
- Daylight
- Dusty mauve and deep gray stay fairly constant through the day, though the espresso brown warms in west light. Side light catches the many thread passes that build the plume; flat noon sun hides them.
Lives best in
Bedroom 5/5
A 5, and without hesitation: the mood of a forming thought held in oxblood silence is exactly the frequency a bedroom should end the day on, and at three feet square it fills without crowding.
Living room 4/5
A 4 here: the espresso-and-violet surface rewards the kind of unhurried looking a living room invites, and the thread catches warm ambient light in a way that shifts the work through the day.
Details
- Size
- 3 × 3 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas with thread
- Year
- 2025
- Collection
- Organic Movement
- Palette
- Espresso Brown · Pale Blue · Dusty Mauve · Deep Gray
- Weight
- About 22 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture3
- Form2
- Colour range2
- Palette3.7
- Contrast3.9
- Abstraction Quotient0
