Layered Communications

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2021
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Layered Communications (2021) is a visual exploration of how meaning builds, distorts, and dissolves over time. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic painting captures the intangible space between intention and reception — where language slips into atmosphere, and understanding becomes layered.

The painting’s surface is built up with semi-transparent washes, overlapping marks, and hints of textural residue. It mimics the way a conversation lingers — how words echo long after they’re spoken, often altered by memory, emotion, or silence. Color veils and blurred gestures suggest both clarity and confusion.

The palette is gentle: muted grays, washed-out blues, and faint blushes of warmth. Nothing shouts. Everything overlaps. This isn’t about noise — it’s about signal. The message may be faint, but it’s there, waiting to be felt more than decoded.

This work finds kinship with Cy Twombly, whose lyrical abstractions often read like fragments of conversations or memories. But where Twombly spirals into the romantic and mythic, Layered Communications is more subdued — grounded in the intimate, everyday difficulty of being understood.

Each layer feels like a page half-erased. A message revised. A feeling reframed. The painting doesn’t tell a story — it lives in the static between stories.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, Layered Communications invites the viewer to listen differently. Not with the ears. But with the body — to what is left unsaid.