Pastel Smoke, 2024

80x80x2 Acrylic on canvas 

Pastel Smoke is  is built from overlapping rectangles and squares,  forms that resist chaos, yet feel unsettled. The palette leans into muted greens, soft beiges, smoky grays, with subtle intrusions of purple and blue. 

Besides the pastel there is still black, a dark color, maybe a feeling, coming through blending with the bright colors. How to read it is in the eyes of the interpreter, but I like having the black still showing amidst the pastels. It gives everyone a chances to read the colors and the story as they want.

The brushwork is layered and textured, creating a surface that feels worn, like a wall that's absorbed years of weather. There's no central focus just a field of forms that seem to drift and collide, like smoke caught in a grid.

This piece belongs in Urban Movements because it captures the emotional static of city life. It's the architecture of feeling: rigid shapes softened by mood and time. It's the residue of movement, what's left behind after the rush.

Pastel Smoke invites reflection. 

It doesn't tell you what to feel, but it gives you space to feel it.