Luminol
Luminol is a 14 × 11 mixed media portal into a world where architecture dissolves into hallucination. Yellow shutters tilt at impossible angles, framing a window that opens not onto sky but onto layered realities—checkered floors that fold into themselves, vintage faces drifting like memories through water, and scattered throughout, luminous spheres that glow like organisms from another dimension.These orbs—spiked, soft, iridescent—float through the composition in colors that refuse to behave: orange bleeding into red, green pulsing with electric life, purple vibrating at the edge of vision, pink glowing like something bioluminescent and alien. They are not invaders—they are visitors, cosmic spores, fragments of a dream the painting is having about itself.The background churns with texture and collage: greens, blues, yellows, rust, and white layered until the surface feels three-dimensional, like you could peel back one reality and find another beneath. Vintage photographs emerge and recede, architectural fragments hint at rooms that never existed, and the whole piece vibrates with the energy of altered perception—the moment when the familiar becomes fantastical.The title, Luminol, evokes the chemical that makes hidden things glow—and here, everything glows. This is the world seen under blacklight, through the veil, in the slipstream between waking and dreaming.
Details
An original mixed media artwork, rich with surreal symbolism and tactile intrigue. Each layer is meticulously built upon a heavy-duty stretched canvas using a myriad of materials, inviting the viewer into a world of texture and depth. Created with professional archival paints and sealed for protection, this piece is designed to endure. The included collage elements are printed with archival inks on fine art papers, ensuring the vibrancy lasts for generations.Size
14x11Materials & Techniques
mediums/materials: phosphorescent paints, found objects, paper, wax, photo collage, oxidative inks, distress paint and inks, acrylic pouring, digitally altered images, acrylic paint, watercolor, spray paint, walnut ink, staining mediums, tissue paper, mica powders, glitter, heavy gel medium, gesso, pebeo prism and fantasy paints, ceramic paint, stained glass paint, alcohol inks, iridescent inks, distress crayons, charcoal, pastels, oil pastels, string, beads, jewelry, gems, chains, buttons, foils, newspaper, vinyl, plastic, walnut inks, india ink, colorshift paints and more!Hidden Images & Elements
Interpretation
Luminol is a vision—a world glimpsed through the aperture of altered perception. The yellow shutters don't close because there's nothing to shut out; reality has already spilled through, and what remains is the beautiful chaos of consciousness unmoored. The spheres are not symbols but presences, entities that exist in the space between thought and form, familiar yet alien, playful yet profound. And in darkness, Luminol fulfills its promise: the painting glows, becoming its own light source, its own evidence. What was hidden in daylight emerges phosphorescent—the spheres radiate, the architecture pulses, and the viewer is reminded that some truths only reveal themselves when we stop trying to see them clearly.The collaged fragments—faces, patterns, architectural ghosts—suggest that memory itself is psychedelic, that the past is always reshaping itself into new configurations. The checkered floors tilt and fold because space is negotiable here, and the textured surface invites touch, as though the painting were asking you to run your fingers along the edge of another dimension. The title Luminol transforms from forensic to visionary: this is the glow of what's hidden made visible, the radiance of the unseen world when the right light is applied. It's trippy, playful, and cosmically curious—a meditation on perception, presence, and the beautiful strangeness of seeing the world anew.Poetry
“Luminous Spores” Through the tilted window, luminous spores drift— dreams that refuse to wake. They float in from the cosmos, rearranging our clutter into constellations of memory. Reality folds at the shutters, dreams with nowhere left to go curl inward— searching the dust for something they recognize.
$400.00Price