Moon Over Lake

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 7ft x 7ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black and White

Moon Over Lake (2024) is a monochrome poem — a large-scale meditation on stillness, reflection, and atmospheric depth. At 84 x 84 inches, this acrylic painting from the Black and White Collection uses minimal form to evoke expansive emotion.

The composition is sparse yet immersive. A soft white orb — the moon — hangs in the upper left, surrounded by inky black. Below, the lake appears only as suggestion: horizontal smudges, faint ripples, mirrored light. Negative space becomes active. Every mark is intentional, every edge softened by time and breath.

I painted Moon Over Lake late at night, under a real moon, with only ambient light in the studio. I wanted the surface to feel like silence — like a held breath. The painting became an act of quiet listening.

The work resonates with the spiritual minimalism of Agnes Martin and the meditative vastness of Hiroshi Sugimoto. But unlike those influences, this piece holds emotional tension — not serenity, but yearning.

Moon Over Lake is not about night. It’s about presence — about how the moon changes the water, and how we change in the act of looking.