Originating Circle

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Originating Circle (2023) is a meditation on beginnings — on the quiet yet powerful geometry that repeats across time, life, and abstraction. This 36 x 36 inch acrylic painting from the Ephemeral AtmosphereCollection invites the viewer into a visual breath: one continuous, unbroken gesture.

At its heart is a single, imperfect circle — not drawn, but formed through layers. It emerges from a field of soft neutrals and shadowy violets, outlined by ghost traces of earlier marks. Around it, faint grids and radial echoes hint at motion and reverberation, like the start of a sound or ripple in water.

I created Originating Circle while thinking about cycles — not as repetition, but as evolution. Every return is also a beginning. The circle here is not a symbol of perfection. It’s organic. Lived-in. Alive with flaws and intention.

This work resonates with the minimalist poetics of Robert Mangold, whose line-based abstractions evoke architecture and meditation. Like Mangold, I’m interested in how the simplest form — the circle — can carry the deepest feeling.

Originating Circle isn’t loud. It’s foundational. It asks you to slow down, to witness the act of coming into form — to feel the circle not as object, but as moment.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece celebrates geometry not as control, but as continuity — a return to the gesture that begins everything.