Diagonal Shadow

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black and White

Diagonal Shadow (2024) is a meditation on contrast — not just of color, but of movement and rest, presence and absence. This 72 x 60 inch acrylic on canvas piece from the Black and White Collection uses one simple diagonal to divide the entire surface into a state of poised tension.

The painting is built from two major fields: one matte black, the other bright, slightly warm white. Between them, a single soft-edged diagonal shadow cuts across the canvas like a falling beam of light or a door left half-open. The black field carries a faint texture — drybrush marks and uneven edges that read like memory etched into surface.

I made Diagonal Shadow as an exploration of duality. It’s a painting about threshold, balance, and ambiguity — about how one gesture can alter the emotional temperature of a space.

This work draws upon the stark visual drama of Kazimir Malevich and the architectural minimalism of Tadao Ando, though my concern is less spatial and more emotive. The diagonal is not aggressive. It is a passage. A shift.

Diagonal Shadow offers no figures, no narrative. Only light and dark, leaning toward each other.