Mellow Dream

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Mellow Dream (2023) is a painting adrift — a soft descent into a state where clarity loosens and presence thickens. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic work invites the viewer into a color field of calm, where thought dissolves into hue and sensation.

The canvas is a haze of buttery yellows, muted apricots, and warm ivory, brushed with a hand that slows time. There’s no hard edge, no direction. The composition floats like breath — diffuse, continuous, just beyond definition. This is not a dream to be interpreted. It’s one to be experienced.

I painted Mellow Dream during a period of mental pause, when I longed for gentleness — not as escape, but as nourishment. The work became a space of restoration. A kind of visual lullaby.

In sensibility, this painting shares lineage with Etel Adnan, whose abstract landscapes evoke emotion through color more than form. Like Adnan, I’m drawn to the emotional frequency of yellow — not bright, but golden, introspective.

Mellow Dream does not ask for meaning. It asks for feeling. It offers quiet, not emptiness. It exists like a memory of warmth — just distinct enough to believe in, just soft enough to never hold.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece exists in suspension — between waking and sleep, thought and breath. A field where stillness glows.