Spiraling

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2022
Collection: The Pulse of Life

Spiraling (2022) is a visual embodiment of motion without arrival — a meditation on cycles, feedback loops, and emotional repetition. Part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this 72 x 60 inch acrylic painting captures what it means to circle around something without fully grasping it.

Built in concentric waves, fractured arcs, and half-visible curves, the painting moves without resolving. Swaths of blue, sienna, ash, and bone white form layers that blur, collide, and reappear. The brushwork is urgent but deliberate — like thought caught in pattern.

I created this work during a time of internal echo — when the same questions kept returning, only slightly altered. Spiraling doesn’t depict confusion. It depicts the rhythm of trying.

In its restless geometry and layered form, the painting finds kinship with the work of Terry Winters, whose paintings map thought and movement through spatial abstraction. Like Winters, I am drawn to the structure of entropy — where systems don’t collapse, but loop.

Spiraling is not a descent. Nor is it a rise. It is a holding pattern — one that is both frustrating and strangely beautiful. You’re in motion. But you’re not lost. You’re learning the shape of your own orbit.

As part of The Pulse of Life Collection, this piece is a study in tension — between freedom and structure, chaos and repetition. It asks: What if the spiral isn’t a trap, but a process?