Held In Passage
What Remains in Motion
- 28 x 22 in
This painting is part of “Holding Space,” a series I’ve been working on over the past year. The paintings begin with landscape, then move beyond it. Landscapes becoming mindscapes. This piece began with a view of the Santa Monica Mountains from the 101, traveling west. The mountains passed. The image stayed, though not intact. Dark greens, blue-black and ochre took the place of distance. Lines looped through the color, interrupted it, then wandered off. I added. Covered. Returned. Some marks survived. Others left traces. The painting offers no recognizable place or fixed view. Only movement. Fragments. A way through.
May, 2026
Acrylic painting
What Passes Through
- 20 x 24 in
What Passes Through explores the shifting space between memory and landscape. Inspired by the hills and changing light along California’s Highway 101 corridor, the painting begins with a remembered place but moves toward something less fixed and more atmospheric. Layers of translucent color, gestural marks, and partially buried forms suggest movement, interruption, and the passage of time. Soft greens, pale blues, and muted lavenders drift across darker grounded passages, while flashes of warmer color and linear marks create moments of tension and release. The composition allows forms to surface and recede simultaneously, holding fragments of structure without fully resolving into a defined image. Part of the Holding Space series, the work reflects an ongoing interest in how experience is carried forward — not as a literal record of place, but as an accumulation of sensation, rhythm, and memory.
May, 2026
Acrylic painting
Held In Passage
- 28 x 22 in
Held in Passage moves through a shifting interior terrain where memory, gesture, and structure briefly come into alignment before dissolving again. Layers of deep color and translucent marks create a sense of movement through space — part landscape, part emotional residue. Sweeping arcs and fragments of line suggest pathways, thresholds, or traces of something once held and now in transition. As with much of this body of work, the painting begins with place and remembered experience, but moves away from representation toward something more internal: a space suspended between containment and release, presence and disappearance. Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.
May, 2026
Acrylic painting