Red Sun Rising

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 4ft x 3ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Red Sun Rising (2023) is a painting about emergence — that quiet but powerful moment when light breaks through and color carries the promise of a new beginning. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 36 inch acrylic work captures the atmosphere of ascent and the emotional charge of transition.

The central form is a deep, round swell of crimson and orange, pushing upward through a field of smoky grays and twilight blues. Its edge glows without sharpness — not the sun as object, but the sun as feeling: warmth after stillness, breath after stillness.

I painted Red Sun Rising after a long internal winter — creatively and personally. It’s not a celebration. It’s a signal. A marker that something has shifted. That the dark may not be over, but the light has made itself known.

The work finds resonance with the elemental clarity of Olafur Eliasson, whose installations harness natural phenomena to provoke presence and wonder. Like Eliasson, I’m drawn to the way light can be emotional — not symbolic, but physical.

Red Sun Rising does not rush. It hums. It offers presence in transition — not what was or what will be, but the moment of becoming.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece stands at the edge of shadow, holding the warmth of return. A sunrise not in the sky, but in the soul.