Blue Planet

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Blue Planet (2024) is a meditation on Earth — not as geography, but as emotional terrain. This 72 x 48 inch acrylic painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection distills planetary form into an abstract expression of motion, breath, and collective memory. It’s not a map. It’s a mood.

The composition revolves around a circular shape in layered blues — cerulean, cobalt, ultramarine — floating on a luminous background of pale white and soft gold. Around the orb, faint rings shimmer, as if echoing gravity, energy, or time. The surface is treated with subtle glazes and delicate scraping, evoking atmosphere, weather, and movement without literal representation.

I painted Blue Planet while reflecting on connection — to place, to each other, to fragility. The sphere here is not perfect. It is textured, weathered, alive. It spins slowly, a symbol of the quiet miracle we inhabit every day without always noticing.

This painting resonates with the visual poetry of Vija Celmins, whose atmospheric works evoke vastness through restraint. But unlike Celmins’ cool detachment, Blue Planet carries warmth — an almost devotional care for the image and what it suggests.

It’s an image of Earth, yes. But it’s also a reflection of self, of cycles, of holding space for all that is fragile and constant.