Painting

Spawning Pools

Dozens of raised golden orbs populate this small square canvas like some primordial tide pool caught mid-bloom. Each dome sits within its own crater ring — concentric halos of interference green and silver that radiate outward into a vivid magenta field. Splashes of deep emerald and copper sweep diagonally across the surface, connecting clusters of these golden nodes like neural pathways or mycological networks spreading beneath forest floor. The interference paints on this piece are working overtime. Under direct light, the raised domes burn with a molten gold intensity while their surrounding rings shift between pale green and ghostly silver. Move to the side and the magenta base deepens toward plum, the greens take on a teal coolness, and the copper veins threading between the orbs seem to recede and advance independently. The close-up shots tell the real story — every single dome catches light differently depending on its height and the angle of the surrounding paint. This is pure rapid-form process work. The magenta and green base layers went down fast and wet, then the copper was dragged and flung across that chaos. While everything was still moving, I built up each raised dome with thick deposits of interference gold, pressing them into the surface so they'd anchor and hold their sculptural form. The result is a piece with real physical depth — you can feel the topography with your fingertips. Paint wraps fully around all edges for clean gallery-style display. Made at the homestead in Riverside, Washington — where the strange things growing in the creek beds end up growing on the canvas too.