Life is 3 Dimensional

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

Life is 3 Dimensional (2024) is a playful assertion — a pop abstraction that reminds us how much we flatten, how much we overlook. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media work from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection pushes the visual language of depth, illusion, and surface into a bold, tongue-in-cheek composition.

At the center is a series of overlapping cubes — some painted, some etched, others layered with resin and foam. Bright colors — pink, cyan, chartreuse, jet black — pop against a white background fractured by faint gridlines. The whole piece reads like a spatial illusion from afar, but up close it’s sculptural — thick with material, intentional in disruption.

I made Life is 3 Dimensional after reflecting on how much of modern life is viewed on screens — flattened, reduced, mediated. This painting reclaims form. It insists on volume. It wants to be felt as much as seen.

There’s a wink to Patrick Caulfield and Peter Halley, artists who blend satire with strong formal control. Like them, I play with illusion not to trick the eye, but to wake it up.

Life is 3 Dimensional isn’t just a title. It’s a prompt — to step closer, see more, and remember that depth is always there.