Haze

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Hand-Painted Photography

Haze (2023) is an atmosphere more than an image — a meditation on ambiguity, breath, and the slow unraveling of clarity. At 48 x 48 inches, this acrylic painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection is a visual whisper: nothing sharp, nothing fixed, everything softly becoming.

The surface is layered with translucent whites, pale blue-grays, and gentle blurs of lavender and sand. Brushwork is slow and steady, fading one form into the next until no edge remains. The composition floats, like thought in the early morning or fog on the edge of memory.

I created Haze while thinking about the spaces between knowing and not knowing. The times when our vision — literal or emotional — is clouded, but still full of presence. The painting isn’t about getting through the haze. It’s about learning to sit within it.

This piece shares quiet resonance with J.M.W. Turner, whose late works dissolve form into light and motion. Like Turner, I’m interested in the feeling of perception more than the thing perceived.

Haze offers no focal point. That’s the point. It gives you space to drift, to pause, to not decide. It invites you to release control — to move through ambiguity with softness.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting honors the transient: not just mist and light, but the mind when it’s still rearranging itself, not yet resolved, but fully alive.