Moon Lights Collection

Welcome to Moon Lights! I’m so glad you are here. I have worked tirelessly on this collection and I hope it brings you at least a fraction of the joy it has given me. I started this collection when I was exhausted- mentally tired from the school I’ve been enduring this year. Mentally tired from the constant flow of negative news we’ve received this year regarding the coronavirus and the civil rights movement. I needed some light and color in my life and I subconsciously created it. 

If you’re familiar with my art it involves a lot of grey, white, black, grey, grey, grey… you get the point. The moon is overwhelmingly monochromatic.  

I love observing full moons in all their glory and I especially love when the moon has a beautiful tint to it. I’ve seen the rare and melancholy blue moon hanging in the sky. The eclipsed moon with the intensity of the earth’s shadow lingering on it. The soft yellow moon that shows up and takes everyone’s breath away. The faint outline of the slightest shadow the new moon has to offer. It’s astonishing to presume that all humans since the beginning of our time on Earth have looked up and seen our friendly satellite. 

As most know, the moon doesn’t actually change colors. Yet, our perspective from the earth and its glorious atmosphere gives us an advantage to a special kind of illusion the moon puts on for us occasionally. The moon is a dark and porous rock orbiting our home with the same side facing us always (otherwise known as tidally locked). It reflects a very small portion of the light shone onto it from the sun. We observe the moon “change colors” when various space phenomena occur. The moon appears yellow when it is lower in the sky and the blue wavelengths of light are scattered. We rarely observe a blue moon when there are particles in the air scattering the red light. The moon turns “red” when the earth’s shadow passes over or pink due to light scattering/position in the sky. Most instances are a combination of light and atmosphere. 

I didn’t intentionally paint this color spectrum of moons during pride month or during our world’s largest civil rights movement. But how fitting, right? Our world could use a lot more love and light. I chose to embrace color and highlight its beauty in this series and the tie to what’s going on in our world is parallel. When I was painting this body of work the wrongful deaths of black people in America were rising in number, initiating the movement that we are currently in. I feel strongly that the way I am supposed to contribute as an individual and also on the grounds of what my business stands for is to donate 10% of my profits from this collection to organizations that empower black lives. After some research, I landed on Buy Black ATL and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 

Whether you decide to own a piece from this collection or admire it, I greatly appreciate you. You are the reason I am able to make a big deal out of 10 paintings and hunker down in my studio for unprecedented amounts of time paintings what’s above us. My hope for these colorful circles is that they bring joy, love, inspiration and light. Ad Astra.