Something happened when you saw this. What was it?
Abstract Inquiry · 2023
Reflection in Red Mirror
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The mirror made of fire — the red that reflects without softening, showing you what you look like the moment you stop performing.
Red Mirror (2023) is a painting that stares back — a surface of color and tension that invites reflection not through image, but through feeling. Part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this 72 x 48 inch mixed media piece confronts the viewer with intensity, heat, and interiority.
The composition centers on a vast plane of red — not flat, but alive. Within the red: scratches, smudges, and subtle metallic glints that pulse like breath beneath the surface. It doesn’t tell you what it is. It asks what you bring to it. What are you seeing? Or being seen by?
I created Red Mirror in a moment of personal confrontation — when I needed to stop running from questions that could only be answered by standing still. The mirror in this painting doesn’t reflect appearance. It reflects energy. Emotion. The version of you that color can summon.
This piece is in dialogue with the meditative intensity of Anish Kapoor, especially his pigment works that consume space and perception. Like Kapoor, I believe red can be a field, a feeling, a challenge.
Red Mirror is not decorative. It’s devotional. A painting that demands presence — not for clarity, but for honesty.
As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this piece offers not light, but heat. Not narrative, but confrontation. It becomes a space where abstraction meets self-awareness.
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 preferred — the resin catches it and the color shifts through the day
- Daylight
- Near black, maroon and carmine at almost no contrast: direct sun will flatten it to a single dark red. Keep it in indirect light, where the slow shifts between the reds have room to surface.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Reflection in Red Mirror earns its place as the living room's anchor: the six-foot carmine and near-black field holds conversation without crowding it, and the resin-held layers shift visibly as afternoon light crosses the wall.
Hotel lobby 4/5
At four by six feet the painting commands a lobby wall with enough gravity to slow foot traffic, though its devotional stillness rewards a guest who pauses rather than one passing through.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 6 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
- Abstract Inquiry
- Palette
- Near Black · Maroon · Carmine
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spur
- Texture2
- Form3
- Colour range2
- Palette4.4
- Contrast1
- Abstraction Quotient2.5
