My Planet in Abstraction
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 9ft x 7ft
Creation Date: 2022
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere
My Planet (2023) is a declaration — not of ownership, but of intimacy. At 108 x 84 inches, it’s one of the largest works in the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, and it unfolds like a personal cosmos. This isn’t a painting of Earth, or Mars, or anything literal. It’s a painting of the world within — radiant, chaotic, orbiting its own logic.
The composition is expansive yet contained, with orbs, elliptical fields, and drifting layers of color floating across a luminous background. Hues of teal, orange, violet, and smoky gray coexist without hierarchy. They drift. They gravitate. The surface pulses like a solar system of moods.
I painted this as an act of claiming space — both external and emotional. It’s a planet of memory, of feeling, of perception. Everything you see is a trace of something felt deeply, but never spoken.
The work finds conceptual affinity with Julie Mehretu, particularly in the way abstraction becomes a map — not of cities or histories, but of internal landscapes. Like Mehretu, I’m interested in how movement, layering, and atmosphere can suggest the geography of selfhood.
My Planet doesn’t rotate around a sun. It radiates from within. And in that glow is a gentle power — a reminder that our inner worlds are vast, dynamic, and worthy of exploration.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting is an invitation to dwell in your own gravity — to feel your way across your own atmosphere.
