Disco Dancing Dinosaur Party developed with a kind of internal momentum that felt difficult to redirect. The painting asserted its own terms early on, pushing toward a saturated, high-energy palette that set the tone for everything that followed. Rather than resisting that pull, I leaned into it, allowing the surface to build through layered color interactions that emphasize vibration over clarity.
The composition is constructed through an accumulation of hues that sit close in value but shift in temperature and intensity. These layers create a sense of visual hum across the surface—color becomes less about contrast and more about density. Over this field, fragments of text, doodles, and drawn marks appear in varying scales and orientations. These elements don’t resolve into a fixed narrative, but instead operate as interruptions and accents, reinforcing the painting’s restless, improvisational character.
In the upper right, a set of concentric yellow circles introduces a more legible structural element, recalling the form of a sun within a traditional landscape. This reference is destabilized by its context, suggesting instead a kind of interior horizon—a mental or emotional space rather than a physical one. The painting as a whole reads as a constructed environment, where marks, symbols, and color fields coexist without hierarchy, generating a sense of movement that is continuous and self-sustaining.
- Subject Matter: abstract
- Collections: 2021, Portfolio, Wish Problems (2019 - )