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Abstract Inquiry · 2022
Vanishing Tracks
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The path that disappears while you're still on it — abstract inquiry into what traces remain after the going is gone.
Vanishing Tracks (2022) is a meditation on impermanence — a 95 x 75 inch mixed media painting that explores the marks we leave behind and how they fade with time. As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, it captures the paradox of movement and disappearance, of imprint and erosion.
The composition is guided by trace lines — faint rails, paths, or streaks — that begin boldly and dissolve into misty abstraction. The surface is layered with washes of slate, umber, pale turquoise, and soft ivory, forming a landscape that feels both ancient and immediate. Some gestures are sharp, others are ghosts.
I created Vanishing Tracks thinking of footprints in sand, memory trails, or remnants of a journey barely remembered. It speaks to the parts of us that move through the world invisibly — the emotional residues we can’t quite hold onto but also can’t forget.
This piece shares a quiet resonance with Cy Twombly, particularly his interest in writing as visual gesture and the fading energy of a mark. Like Twombly, I trust the incomplete. The almost-erased. The beauty in what is barely there.
Vanishing Tracks is not melancholic. It is spacious. It honors the temporary. It says: even the most subtle impact matters. Even the path that fades had presence.
As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this painting closes a loop — echoing our own transient lives, and the poetry of presence in motion.
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 preferred — oil layers shift through the day
- Daylight
- Oil-slick blue, charcoal and muted white are cool and high in contrast, so the tracks hold in bright daylight and the painting can face a window. At eight feet wide it rewards a large, evenly lit wall.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Vanishing Tracks earns this room: its six-by-eight feet of charcoal gray and oil-slick blue fill a shared wall with enough gravity to anchor the space, while the fading white imprints give a family something to return to and re-read over years.
Hotel lobby 4/5
At lobby scale the deep shadow palette reads as sophisticated rather than oppressive, and the hint of recognizable form at abstraction 2.5 gives transient guests just enough to hold before they move on.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 8 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Abstract Inquiry
- Palette
- Deep Shadow · Oil-Slick Blue · Charcoal Gray · Muted White
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 8–12 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Sprig
- Texture2
- Form4
- Colour range2
- Palette3.8
- Contrast4.8
- Abstraction Quotient2.5
