Midnight Summer Dream

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Midnight Summer Dream (2023) is an abstract ode to nocturnal reverie — a painting that captures the sensory overflow of a summer night when the world feels both entirely yours and completely unknowable. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch mixed media piece immerses the viewer in mystery, warmth, and wonder.

Deep indigos and smoky purples stretch across the canvas, scattered with flickers of gold, blush, and a misty forest green. The surface shimmers and recedes like moonlight on skin, or fragments of memory you catch just as you're falling asleep. There are forms, but they fade. There are gestures, but they hush.

I created Midnight Summer Dream as a love letter to the way memory and imagination melt into each other at night. This is not a dream to be understood — it’s one that asks to be felt, as if walking barefoot through air thick with warmth and meaning.

This painting resonates with the poetic atmospheres of Mark Rothko, though less severe and more lyrical — inviting contemplation not through solemnity, but through softness. Like Rothko, I use color as a mood, a question, a pulse.

Midnight Summer Dream isn’t about night. It’s about that liminal space when time slips and every shadow holds a secret.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this work celebrates ambiguity as an emotional truth — lush, unsolvable, and completely alive.