40"x40" acrylic on canvas, 2018
 
A breathy, airy quality in both application and overall hue creates visual interest when paired with an elemental palette of red, yellow, and blue. The primaries create the foundation of all other color in ways that root the viewer in reality and simplicity and yet present the alternatives of complexity - all those colors together create muddy browns framed by wispy grays. The repeating pattern like a heartbeat, going and growing, and continuing on with every inhalation and exhalation. Spaciousness emanates from the overall image like the expansive quality inside the lungs - sheltered within the ribcage - the unassuming yet vital source of our very wellbeing.