Migration: Layers of Movement and Displacement

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2020
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Migration (2020) is part of both my Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection and my experiments with Epoxy on Acrylic, where I explore movement not as a fixed path, but as layered, disorienting flows of energy and form. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media painting captures the chaotic beauty of departure, drift, and arrival — or perhaps, the impossibility of ever fully arriving.

The painting is built on translucent pours of acrylic, sealed beneath layers of glossy epoxy that create a watery, suspended surface. Forms resembling fragments, trails, and blurred territories drift across the field, evoking both natural migrations and psychological displacements. The work feels restless, resisting fixed borders or narratives.

In this exploration, I found resonance with Mark Bradford, whose layered abstractions excavate urban maps and personal histories, revealing the tensions beneath the surface. Like Bradford, I am drawn to the marks, scars, and traces left by bodies in motion — not clean, linear journeys, but fragmented, overlapping migrations that hold memory, trauma, and hope.

Migration is a meditation on the spaces in-between — between one place and another, one identity and another, one story and the next. The painting does not offer resolution; it offers a space to feel the weight and fluidity of movement itself.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, Migration captures the atmosphere of displacement, the emotional residue of crossing thresholds, and the layered histories carried within us as we move through — or away from — spaces.