subconscious architecture

Medium:
acrylic, gouache, canvas

Dimensions:
30" x 24" x 2"

Year Completed:
2025

Primary Discipline:
Painting

Description:
"Reimagined Travel," offers a vibrant, fragmented view of movement and destination. The piece employs a bold, structured geometry overlaid with expressive, curvilinear strokes, suggesting the complex architecture of modern transit hubs—perhaps a stylized map, a cross-section of an airport, or intersecting urban routes.

The palette is rich and contrasting, featuring warm earth tones (terracotta, gold, ochre) sharply balanced against cool, structural blues and black. The metallic gold accents catch the light, hinting at luggage, signage, or precious moments captured in transit. Energetic black lines weave across the canvas, acting as reimagined flight paths or highways that connect disparate blocks of color, emphasizing a feeling of continuous motion and momentary stasis.

Through its layered complexity and juxtaposition of sharp angles and flowing curves, the painting moves beyond a literal landscape. It seeks to capture the feeling of contemporary travel: the exhilarating rush of departure, the abstract confusion of navigating new spaces, and the powerful energy of human connection and movement across boundaries. It is a visual journey into the architecture of migration and the memories made along the way.