Study for YInMn Blue (Chatter) explores a pigment unlike any other. Discovered in 2009, YInMn Blue is the first new inorganic blue pigment found in two centuries, prized for its depth and rare reddish undertone. Here, it anchors a composition built around chatter, the choppy texture that ripples across the surface of the water before a wave breaks.

Splattered drips and a dense black mass collide with a thick swipe of white opacity, while gold pushes in at the edges. A study in capturing the surface tension of the ocean, the small chaos that happens before the bigger one.