On an expanse of flawless white that feels like the first breath of snowfall, a delicate constellation of translucent forms drifts into view—like the softest exhale of spring blossoms caught mid-dissolve. Gentle, organic shapes—rounded petals, irregular ovals, sinuous teardrops, and faint cloud-like fragments—hover weightlessly in loose, billowing arrangement. Pale washes of color glide across them: faint lemon yellows that glow like early sunlight, blush pinks evoking tender new growth, mint greens suggesting fresh leaves, subtle lavenders, and warm peach tones that breathe quiet warmth.
Each layer is applied in thin, luminous acrylic glazes, allowing hues to bleed and mingle where forms overlap: a lemon edge softens into peach to birth delicate coral, mint crosses lavender to yield ethereal aqua whispers, creating subtle halos and diffused glows that feel lit from within. No sharp boundaries or heavy opacity exist; edges feather gently into the white ground, dissolving rather than ending, so the entire assembly appears to float, breathe, and slowly disperse without ever fully departing.
The composition centers this fragile bloom asymmetrically yet harmoniously—forms gather softly toward the middle with a gentle outward drift, trailing wisps reaching toward the edges while leaving vast, breathing white space that cradles every nuance and amplifies the sense of infinite calm. There is no anchor, no stem or horizon; only quiet ascension and tender scattering, evoking the poetry of things briefly cohering before yielding to openness.
Notice how the softest overlaps draw the eye inward to the densest, most luminous passages, then release it along feathered trails that fade into nothingness—creating a meditative rhythm between gentle gathering and serene dispersal, presence and impermanence. The pale, harmonious palette infuses hushed joy and fragility: cool mints and lavenders lend clarity and calm, warm yellows and peaches add subtle vitality, all suspended in crystalline restraint.
Part of the "Tychist Objects" series, this painting embraces tychism—Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy that genuine, objective chance is a real creative principle in the universe. Algorithmic procedures using random numbers guided decisions in form, placement, orientation, and color relationships, yet each translucent layer was hand-painted with deliberate care, merging mechanical indeterminacy with human nuance. The result is a luminous emblem of beauty arising from true randomness: fragile order emerging as if by miracle from uncertainty, a quiet hymn to the fleeting yet profoundly alive.
In its ethereal fragility, the work invites prolonged, contemplative looking—how does this tender drift of pale light and petal-like shapes awaken your own sense of stillness, impermanence, or the gentle poetry of chance caught in fragile bloom?
Technical notes.
Unique painting. Acrylic on board. Unframed dimensions: 18-1/2” high x 18” wide. Signed by the artist on the front, dated 2020.
On an expanse of flawless white that feels like the first breath of snowfall, a delicate constellation of translucent forms drifts into view—like the softest exhale of spring blossoms caught mid-dissolve. Gentle, organic shapes—rounded petals, irregular ovals, sinuous teardrops, and faint cloud-like fragments—hover weightlessly in loose, billowing arrangement. Pale washes of color glide across them: faint lemon yellows that glow like early sunlight, blush pinks evoking tender new growth, mint greens suggesting fresh leaves, subtle lavenders, and warm peach tones that breathe quiet warmth.
Each layer is applied in thin, luminous acrylic glazes, allowing hues to bleed and mingle where forms overlap: a lemon edge softens into peach to birth delicate coral, mint crosses lavender to yield ethereal aqua whispers, creating subtle halos and diffused glows that feel lit from within. No sharp boundaries or heavy opacity exist; edges feather gently into the white ground, dissolving rather than ending, so the entire assembly appears to float, breathe, and slowly disperse without ever fully departing.
The composition centers this fragile bloom asymmetrically yet harmoniously—forms gather softly toward the middle with a gentle outward drift, trailing wisps reaching toward the edges while leaving vast, breathing white space that cradles every nuance and amplifies the sense of infinite calm. There is no anchor, no stem or horizon; only quiet ascension and tender scattering, evoking the poetry of things briefly cohering before yielding to openness.
Notice how the softest overlaps draw the eye inward to the densest, most luminous passages, then release it along feathered trails that fade into nothingness—creating a meditative rhythm between gentle gathering and serene dispersal, presence and impermanence. The pale, harmonious palette infuses hushed joy and fragility: cool mints and lavenders lend clarity and calm, warm yellows and peaches add subtle vitality, all suspended in crystalline restraint.
Part of the "Tychist Objects" series, this painting embraces tychism—Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy that genuine, objective chance is a real creative principle in the universe. Algorithmic procedures using random numbers guided decisions in form, placement, orientation, and color relationships, yet each translucent layer was hand-painted with deliberate care, merging mechanical indeterminacy with human nuance. The result is a luminous emblem of beauty arising from true randomness: fragile order emerging as if by miracle from uncertainty, a quiet hymn to the fleeting yet profoundly alive.
In its ethereal fragility, the work invites prolonged, contemplative looking—how does this tender drift of pale light and petal-like shapes awaken your own sense of stillness, impermanence, or the gentle poetry of chance caught in fragile bloom?
Technical notes.
Unique painting. Acrylic on board. Unframed dimensions: 18-1/2” high x 18” wide. Signed by the artist on the front, dated 2020.
