On a vast, immaculate field of pure white, a single luminous breath of color appears to unfold in slow, meditative motion—like the very first petal opening at dawn.
Near the quiet center, a soft, rounded form of pale buttery yellow glows with delicate warmth, its edges feathering so gently into the white that they seem to exhale rather than end. Radiating outward from this tender core in loose, organic waves are a handful of equally translucent companions: faint lavender arcs that curl like distant smoke, mint-green teardrops that drift weightlessly, blush-pink ovals that blush even softer where they touch the yellow, slender sky-blue tendrils that reach and curve with the lightest possible touch.
Every shape is laid in thin, luminous acrylic washes—layer upon layer so delicate that light appears to pass straight through them. Overlaps are almost imperceptible yet magical: the faintest lemon deepens to a glowing apricot where it kisses peach, lavender softens into rose where it brushes pink, creating the gentlest possible halos and afterglows. No sharp edge exists anywhere; every form simply breathes into the next or into the white, dissolving with exquisite restraint.
The composition is deliberately asymmetrical and open—forms gather softly toward the center-right with a gentle outward drift, leaving enormous breathing space of pure white that makes the entire piece feel suspended, weightless, infinitely calm. There is no weight, no gravity, no insistence—only the poetry of things that have only just begun to be.
Notice how the softest yellow center draws the eye inward with its quiet radiance, then very gently releases it along curving lavender arcs and trailing blue tendrils—creating an almost imperceptible rhythm between the faintest gathering and the most tender dispersal. The extremely restrained, pastel palette (butter, blush, mint, lavender, sky) infuses the work with hushed serenity, fragile joy, and crystalline stillness.
As with the "Tychist Objects" series, this painting embraces tychism—Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy that genuine, objective chance is a fundamental creative principle in the universe. Algorithmic random-number processes guided decisions in form, placement, orientation, and color relationships, yet each translucent veil was hand-painted with exquisite care, merging mechanical indeterminacy with profound human sensitivity. The result is a luminous emblem of beauty arising from true randomness: the most fragile possible order emerging as if by miracle from perfect uncertainty, a quiet hymn to what is only just beginning to exist.
In its near-silent radiance, the work invites you to breathe with it—how does this tender, barely-there unfolding of pale light and whisper-soft color stir your own sense of stillness, the beauty of things that are only beginning, or the gentle poetry of chance caught at the precise instant of first becoming?
Technical notes.
Painting, acrylic on board. Unframed dimensions: 20” high x 18” wide. Framed dimensions: 22-3/8” high x 20-3/8” wide x 1-7/16” deep. White painted modern style wood frame. Signed by the artist on the front, dated 2016.
On a vast, immaculate field of pure white, a single luminous breath of color appears to unfold in slow, meditative motion—like the very first petal opening at dawn.
Near the quiet center, a soft, rounded form of pale buttery yellow glows with delicate warmth, its edges feathering so gently into the white that they seem to exhale rather than end. Radiating outward from this tender core in loose, organic waves are a handful of equally translucent companions: faint lavender arcs that curl like distant smoke, mint-green teardrops that drift weightlessly, blush-pink ovals that blush even softer where they touch the yellow, slender sky-blue tendrils that reach and curve with the lightest possible touch.
Every shape is laid in thin, luminous acrylic washes—layer upon layer so delicate that light appears to pass straight through them. Overlaps are almost imperceptible yet magical: the faintest lemon deepens to a glowing apricot where it kisses peach, lavender softens into rose where it brushes pink, creating the gentlest possible halos and afterglows. No sharp edge exists anywhere; every form simply breathes into the next or into the white, dissolving with exquisite restraint.
The composition is deliberately asymmetrical and open—forms gather softly toward the center-right with a gentle outward drift, leaving enormous breathing space of pure white that makes the entire piece feel suspended, weightless, infinitely calm. There is no weight, no gravity, no insistence—only the poetry of things that have only just begun to be.
Notice how the softest yellow center draws the eye inward with its quiet radiance, then very gently releases it along curving lavender arcs and trailing blue tendrils—creating an almost imperceptible rhythm between the faintest gathering and the most tender dispersal. The extremely restrained, pastel palette (butter, blush, mint, lavender, sky) infuses the work with hushed serenity, fragile joy, and crystalline stillness.
As with the "Tychist Objects" series, this painting embraces tychism—Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy that genuine, objective chance is a fundamental creative principle in the universe. Algorithmic random-number processes guided decisions in form, placement, orientation, and color relationships, yet each translucent veil was hand-painted with exquisite care, merging mechanical indeterminacy with profound human sensitivity. The result is a luminous emblem of beauty arising from true randomness: the most fragile possible order emerging as if by miracle from perfect uncertainty, a quiet hymn to what is only just beginning to exist.
In its near-silent radiance, the work invites you to breathe with it—how does this tender, barely-there unfolding of pale light and whisper-soft color stir your own sense of stillness, the beauty of things that are only beginning, or the gentle poetry of chance caught at the precise instant of first becoming?
Technical notes.
Painting, acrylic on board. Unframed dimensions: 20” high x 18” wide. Framed dimensions: 22-3/8” high x 20-3/8” wide x 1-7/16” deep. White painted modern style wood frame. Signed by the artist on the front, dated 2016.
