Radiant Feather on a Red Horizon: Exploring Motion, Color, and Presence in the Organic Movement
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 2ft x 2ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Organic Movement
At once fiery and fluid, Radiant Feather on a Red Horizon (24 x 24 in, oil on canvas) is a vibrant exploration of motion and resonance within the Organic Movement. This painting pulses with urgency: strokes of crimson red surge against layers of blue, while delicate thread-like textures capture the sensation of feathers lifted by wind, or energy in constant flux.
The Organic Movement series emerges from my thread painting technique—a method where the brush is replaced with strings that guide the pigment into unpredictable flows. This process surrenders part of control to the material itself, producing forms that feel alive, as if the canvas breathes with its own rhythm. Here, the interplay of bold red and cooling blue produces tension and release, a visual metaphor for balance within conflict.
Radiant Feather on a Red Horizon stands in dialogue with contemporary abstractionists who explore energy and materiality. Artists like Mark Bradford layer history and social meaning into abstract surfaces, while Julie Mehretu builds gestural cartographies of human motion. In my practice, I lean into elemental presence—color, motion, and form as direct channels of emotion—where the horizon becomes not just a boundary, but a site of renewal.
The painting’s feather-like structure invites multiple readings. Some may see it as a phoenix rising, others as a turbulent wave cresting into transformation. For me, it is both: a reminder that abstraction thrives in ambiguity, offering each viewer an opening into their own inner landscape.
In the context of the Organic Movement, this work asserts that abstraction is not purely conceptual—it is embodied, tactile, and sensorial. The textures hold memory, each pull of the thread a record of gesture. Radiant Feather on a Red Horizon becomes less a static image than an unfolding event, one that continues to live in the encounter between canvas and viewer.
