Four Moments In A Day

Time. What I don't know how much I have of. These flower subjects won't know how long they will exist, anymore than the clouds know how long their forms will hang in the distance the way they do. • Mid-point blooms of floral life share time with refracted water vapor light in a slow dance across the frame. Two sets of shapes. The specific edge of a flower contrasting with a cloud's soft color, married within two moments of time. The flower's forms are slow to evolve against the sky's constant change. As clouds drift through each minute, shape shifting is visible. Invisibly slow is how each flower evolves throughout their day. • The cloud's minutes and the flower's days; finite. Not unlike like our clocks of ticking time, the minutes and hours seem slow even as years come more and more quickly.

7 AM / Cala Lilly Cloud, May, 2024. Acrylic and mediums on stretched linen support. 54 inches by 34 inches. This series is about time: flowers and clouds have their own time stamp and duration, they are expressed here as captured motion and even slower motion: flowers are only flowers because they fall. Clear morning light.

10 AM / Blue Orchid Cloud, September, 2025. Acrylic and mediums on stretched linen support. 54 inches by 34 inches. More interesting to me was depicting an impossibly blue-to-pink color against the sky's gradient. The yellow at the horizon implies the day is getting warm already.

3 PM / Vivi's Rose, 2024… 60 inches by 36 inches tall. Acrylic and mediums on stretched linen support. The lower parts of the rose and stem are in silhouette, like a cast shadow but not, just pure shape as counter to the painted detail of the flowers multitude of petals. The color of the sky aims for a hazy summer afternoon.

6 PM / Yellow Orchid, December 2024 50 inches by 3 inches tall. Painted acrylic, mediums and airbrushed acrylic on stretched linen support. Like the Rose image above, I am interested in the power of these delicate shapes. I feel duty bound to try to depict the origami-like complexity.

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