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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Spatial Journey
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The journey as a quality of space rather than a movement through it — atmospheric painting where the destination is a different kind of attention.
Spatial Journey (2023) is an exploration across distance — a painting that moves between dimensions, evoking the rhythm of thought, orbit, and expansion. This 48 x 72 inch acrylic on canvas work from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection is both grounded and cosmic, mapping a voyage through space that’s internal as much as imagined.
The composition features sweeping lines, orbital rings, and scattered geometric marks that pulse across a field of indigo, pearl white, and stardust gray. The strokes suggest trajectory — like stars caught mid-arc, or thoughts tracing their own orbits. There’s no single focal point. Instead, the eye travels, drifts, revisits.
I painted Spatial Journey while reflecting on nonlinear paths — how progress doesn’t always follow a straight line, how exploration is rarely orderly. The painting became a visual map of movement through uncertainty, through space, through self.
This work resonates with the energetic abstraction of Julie Mehretu, whose layered lines and marks conjure motion, systems, and dislocation. Like Mehretu, I view space not just as expanse, but as experience — a shape we travel through, and that travels through us.
Spatial Journey doesn’t claim to chart anything specific. It suggests. It floats. It gives you a direction without needing a destination.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece embraces wonder — not the kind you arrive at, but the kind you wander in.
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
- Prussian blue and cobalt keep it anchored through the day, while the burnt sienna and amber warm under western sun. The surface is smooth, so its atmosphere reads best in even, indirect light rather than a hard beam.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Spatial Journey earns its full score here because a living room is the one space that can hold a six-foot canvas of pooled Prussian blue and deep umber without demanding resolution, letting the nonlinear drift become part of daily rhythm.
Bedroom 4/5
The slow burn of burnt sienna against olive green reads as contemplative rather than restless in a bedroom, but the painting needs morning light to lift its dark gloss surface, so a north-facing wall will leave it heavy and unresolved all day.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 4 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
- Dark Gloss · Deep Umber · Prussian Blue · Burnt Sienna · Amber · Cobalt · Olive Green
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Bud
- Texture1
- Form3
- Colour range3
- Palette2.9
- Contrast2.8
- Abstraction Quotient1.5
