Celestial desert
Celestial Desert is a meditation on silence, heat, and the spiritual vastness of in-between places. I painted this piece while thinking about the desert—not as emptiness, but as a space of encounter. The deep reds, dusty rose, and flashes of emerald and white swirl like dunes under a cosmic sky. It feels both earthly and galactic. I think of it as a sacred threshold: a place between struggle and vision, where you’re stripped down and lit from within.
This painting is for anyone who has felt themselves in the wilderness—waiting, wandering, becoming.
As artist Julie Mehretu suggests in her mapping-like abstractions, colour and space can become records of spiritual weather—marks of where you've been and what shaped you.
The circular form grounds the work cosmically—like a moon, a planet, or a sacred relic. In Celestial Desert, I wanted to paint the feeling of heat and distance and divine proximity all at once.
Celestial Desert is a meditation on silence, heat, and the spiritual vastness of in-between places. I painted this piece while thinking about the desert—not as emptiness, but as a space of encounter. The deep reds, dusty rose, and flashes of emerald and white swirl like dunes under a cosmic sky. It feels both earthly and galactic. I think of it as a sacred threshold: a place between struggle and vision, where you’re stripped down and lit from within.
This painting is for anyone who has felt themselves in the wilderness—waiting, wandering, becoming.
As artist Julie Mehretu suggests in her mapping-like abstractions, colour and space can become records of spiritual weather—marks of where you've been and what shaped you.
The circular form grounds the work cosmically—like a moon, a planet, or a sacred relic. In Celestial Desert, I wanted to paint the feeling of heat and distance and divine proximity all at once.
Celestial Desert is a meditation on silence, heat, and the spiritual vastness of in-between places. I painted this piece while thinking about the desert—not as emptiness, but as a space of encounter. The deep reds, dusty rose, and flashes of emerald and white swirl like dunes under a cosmic sky. It feels both earthly and galactic. I think of it as a sacred threshold: a place between struggle and vision, where you’re stripped down and lit from within.
This painting is for anyone who has felt themselves in the wilderness—waiting, wandering, becoming.
As artist Julie Mehretu suggests in her mapping-like abstractions, colour and space can become records of spiritual weather—marks of where you've been and what shaped you.
The circular form grounds the work cosmically—like a moon, a planet, or a sacred relic. In Celestial Desert, I wanted to paint the feeling of heat and distance and divine proximity all at once.