My Abstract Brain

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2021
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

My Abstract Brain (2021) is a self-portrait without a face — a visual rendering of thought, emotion, and fragmentation as experienced from the inside out. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic painting reflects the layered, nonlinear texture of perception itself.

The composition swirls and scatters, with pockets of density and sudden silence. Vivid color fields — electric yellow, soft lavender, deep navy — compete and converse, held loosely together by marks that feel impulsive but intentional. The canvas becomes a cognitive map: confusion, clarity, collision, connection.

This work is personal. It was painted in a moment of intense internal motion — where creativity, anxiety, insight, and memory overlapped like translucent veils. I didn’t paint an image. I traced a pulse. A blur of sensations.

In energy and improvisation, this piece echoes the work of Joan Mitchell, whose gestural abstractions often feel like raw mental landscapes. But where Mitchell embraced chaos, My Abstract Brain leans into rhythm — finding cohesion not in control, but in flow.

There are no answers here. No center. Just a field of feeling, flickering with ideas, doubts, and dreams. It’s not always legible. But it’s deeply alive.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, My Abstract Brain captures a fleeting state — a window into the mind when it forgets it’s being watched. A portrait of thinking as becoming.