Passion Unleashed

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Passion Unleashed (2023) is an eruption — a declaration of presence and power through pure pigment and motion. This 72 x 72 inch acrylic painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection is a testament to emotion at its most raw and embodied.

The canvas explodes with reds, oranges, and pinks, clashing and coalescing like flame and heartbeat. Streaks of black and deep burgundy cut through the surface like breathless interruptions. No area sits still — every inch is alive, shifting, vibrating with layered brushwork and gestural force.

I painted Passion Unleashed in one unbroken session, not from concept, but from feeling. It’s not an image of passion — it is passion. The kind that rises without permission and demands space. There’s no restraint here, only surrender.

The work connects with the expressive violence of Kazuo Shiraga, who used the body itself — feet, momentum, weight — to create his visceral surfaces. Like Shiraga, I believe passion is best recorded not in symbol, but in action.

Passion Unleashed doesn’t ask to be understood. It asks to be felt in the body — to stir something primal, urgent, full of risk and heat.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece captures the moment emotion escapes language and becomes form. It is not quiet. It is not safe. It is gloriously alive.