Human Print

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

Human Print (2024) is an imprint of movement — a record of presence left behind in gesture and mark. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media canvas from the Ephemeral Atmosphere collection captures human form not by depiction, but by impact. Fingerprints, palm smears, partial silhouettes — all trace the passage of body across surface.

The piece is layered with warm ochres, reds, pale gray, and soft black. Textures rise and fall like fossil impressions or cave walls. Paint has been dragged, pressed, and wiped. The effect is visceral — not violent, but intimate. Like touching memory.

I made Human Print during a time of re-grounding — of returning to my own physicality after long mental abstraction. The work became a dance of skin, breath, pressure. It holds the energy of presence — not posed, but passed through.

It finds kinship with Yves Klein’s anthropometries and Antoni Tàpies’ material bodies — works that let the trace replace the figure. Here, identity is not captured. It’s echoed.

Human Print is not a portrait. It is a residue. A reminder that we leave marks — and they are beautiful.