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Organic Movement · 2024 · also in Black & White
Plankton in Sunlight Ocean
Abstract Oil Painting
In a private collection
The same plankton, different ocean — when the light comes through, everything the dark held becomes visible.
“Plankton in Sun Light Ocean' gathers fragments of the moment and renders them eternal in layered abstraction.”
Planktons in Sunlit Ocean is a meditation in motion—an abstract oil painting that captures the quiet chaos of nature's rhythm. Painted on a 5ft by 4ft canvas, the work unfolds in sweeping arcs of black and white, alive with tension, balance, and breath. The forms curve and collide like currents beneath the surface—fluid, unpredictable, and deeply organic.
This piece was born through my wet twine technique, where pigment and string meet a damp canvas with no clear plan—just presence. The process is one of surrender. There’s no forcing here. Only response. The twine leaves behind trails that feel like plankton stirred by sunlight in open water—adrift, yet full of purpose. Every gesture is unrepeatable. Every mark, a trace of what moved through me in that moment.
Though abstract, the work carries memory—of ocean winds, unseen life, and the invisible systems that shape the world around us. It’s a piece about emergence. About trusting what takes form when you let go of control.
Monochrome was a deliberate choice. Without color, the structure reveals itself more fully. Light and shadow become the subject. Motion and stillness begin to blur. And in that blur, something elemental comes forward—something felt before it’s named.
Planktons in Sunlit Ocean isn’t about the sea. It’s about what stirs beneath the surface. In water. In thought. In us.
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
- Warm ambient light enhances organic palette — thread catches light beautifully
- Daylight
- Pale gray on pale gray, at very low contrast, so bright direct sun washes it nearly blank. Indirect daylight from the side is ideal; it lets the thread ridges cast the small shadows the painting depends on.
Lives best in
Bedroom 5/5
A 5, because the gray-on-gray stillness and the slow organic drift of plankton forms dissolve the boundary between waking thought and sleep, and the thread catches low warm light in a way that makes the wall itself seem to breathe.
Living room 4/5
Plankton in Sunlight Ocean earns a 4 here because its pale and spectral grays shift with a living room's changing light, and the embedded thread catches warm ambient glow in a way that rewards the long, unhurried looking a home allows.
Details
- Size
- 4 × 5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas with thread
- Year
- 2024
- Collection
- Organic Movement, Black & White
- Palette
- Pale Gray · Spectral Gray
- Weight
- About 45 lb
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spur
- Texture3
- Form2
- Colour range1
- Palette5
- Contrast1.5
- Abstraction Quotient1
