Attention Span

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Out of Darkness

Attention Span (2025) is an abstract scroll through the visual noise of contemporary life — a burst of shapes, signs, and disjointed rhythms that mirrors the pace of how we consume, jump, swipe, and forget. This mixed media on wood painting, part of the Out of Darkness Collection, doesn’t ask you to look in one place for long. Instead, it invites your eye to wander — and perhaps notice how hard it is to stop.

The surface explodes with overlapping patterns: neon pink bars, emoji-like circles, fragments of arrows and checkerboard grids. Colors collide — electric blue next to chartreuse, next to coral — each fragment threatening to become a focal point before it’s swallowed by another. Acrylic paint is layered with digital-like marks and textural epoxy that refracts light, mimicking the sheen of a touchscreen or a backlit interface.

I created Attention Span after a particularly fragmented week, bouncing between apps, conversations, deadlines — each one half-finished. I wanted to paint that feeling: the saturation, the overstimulation, and the strange joy of it all. The result is a painting that isn’t “about” distraction — it embodies it.

This piece draws energy from Kenny Scharf and Takashi Murakami, artists whose work blurs the line between play and critique. Like them, I’m interested in surface as culture — what we see, what we skip, and how we construct meaning from fragments.

Attention Span doesn’t center the viewer. It moves around you. It flickers. It refreshes. Just like everything else.