Acrylic
An Interior Door
80” x 32”
Acrylic on a door
surreal: Surreal, Visionary, Landscape
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This surreal landscape captures a moment of transition, where a single energy line slices through rolling green hills and a digital sky lit by sunset. Floating cubes drift like fragmented signals, while two large signal towers rise from the hills on the left, and the one looping power line twists upward in a dance between nature and technology. On the right, a dark road winds through the scene and slips off the edge — leading into the unknown. It’s a dreamlike intersection of stillness and motion, all held together by that one pulsing thread of energy.
Tags: Static Energy, Saguaro Cactus, Plesant Lake, Sonora, Tension
This painting is rooted in a real moment — a surreal pause on the side of a desert road at Pleasant Lake, just north of Phoenix. I was on a road trip with my wife at the time, wandering around the lake when I stopped and looked up at those towering powerlines. The sky was glowing with sunset colors, and a storm brewed faintly in the distance. I snapped a photo right there — standing on that very road you see on the right, the one that winds off into the unknown.
What makes this piece especially charged for me is what was happening behind the scenes. My wife and I were in the middle of our own emotional storm — on the edge of something unraveling. Not long after that trip, we divorced. This painting became a way to hold that moment — the calm before everything shifted. The energy line that cuts through the piece represents that electric tension — when the air feels thick with static and unspoken words, and you know something is about to break open. It’s beautiful and haunting all at once — a frozen memory of stillness right before the storm.
