About Being Nomad- Solar Reflection

The About Being Nomad series explores how physical travel alters the human perception of space and memory, using the architectural frame of an airplane window to reconfigure high-altitude landscapes. Originating from a three-step process—mid-flight photography, preliminary structural sketching, and secondary studio execution—the work translates the immediate experience of travel into a formal dialogue between sweeping, atmospheric color fields and hard-edged geometric structures.

In Solar Reflection, this approach captures the fluid, ethereal transitions of shifting celestial light and high-altitude water reflection. Featuring an arresting vertical column of fiery orange and yellow set against deep indigo and turquoise horizons, the composition distills the intense brilliance of the sun observed from 30,000 feet. Executed in the studio through rich, multi-layered oil glazes, the painting processes this fleeting moment of transit to record the quiet solitude, affective resonance, and psychological sedimentation of high-altitude memory.