Movement

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

Movement (2023) is not a depiction — it’s a performance. This 48 x 48 inch mixed media piece from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection captures motion not as subject, but as method. It’s a painting that breathes, pulses, and sways across its own surface.

The composition unfolds in sweeping gestures — arcs of charcoal, slashes of deep ultramarine, and trails of golden ochre dancing across a muted base. There are no fixed forms. Every element is in flux, like choreography frozen mid-rhythm. The marks aren’t placed; they arrive.

I created Movement in a moment of physical restlessness, when my thoughts couldn’t sit still and my body needed to lead. I didn’t begin with an idea. I began by moving — letting twine, brush, and pigment follow instinct. The painting is the record of that rhythm.

This work resonates with the expressive dynamism of Joan Jonas, whose performance-based practice transforms gesture into narrative. Like Jonas, I see movement as meaning — a way of thinking through motion rather than words.

Movement does not resolve. It resists stasis. It reminds us that the world doesn’t sit still, and neither do we. Even in quiet, there is trembling.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece captures motion as emotion — not directional, but energetic. It holds the feeling of being swept, carried, stirred.