Silent Rage

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2021
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

Silent Rage (2021) is an exploration of fury held beneath the surface — the kind that simmers, waits, and shapes us quietly. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 72 x 60 inch acrylic painting captures emotion in its restrained but charged state.

The composition is built on deep reds, bruised purples, and sudden flashes of black and white. It’s not loud. It doesn’t need to be. Instead, the brushwork is controlled but trembling — a slow boil, not an explosion. The canvas feels like a held breath, a clenched jaw, a thought unsaid.

Silent Rage is less about anger as an outburst and more about its residue — how it lingers, colors perception, and builds unseen pressure. The layers of paint suggest what’s buried beneath. Every mark is a fracture line — deliberate, quiet, but undeniably alive.

This work finds kinship with Mark Rothko’s darker canvases, particularly in how emotion is evoked through immersive color fields. But where Rothko often sought transcendence, Silent Rage grounds us in the body — in the weight of emotional labor.

This painting is about dignity in containment. It does not ask to be fixed. It asks to be witnessed.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, Silent Rage is a meditation on the potency of what we don’t express. It invites the viewer to sit with discomfort — to see what lies beneath composure and to recognize the power in holding one’s fire.