Carrie Pitman's Liquid Sunset I

A square composition of almost meditative equilibrium, Liquid Sunset I by Carrie Pitman arrives hand finished and enriched with gold leaf, its luminous surface shifting with the quality of late light caught just before it disappears. The wooden ground beneath speaks to the work's quiet architectural authority — substantial enough in its two-inch depth to read as object as much as image. At just over thirty-seven inches in both height and width, it occupies the wall with the confidence of a considered punctuation mark, neither overwhelming a room nor retreating from it. A signature offering from John Richard, it belongs to that rare category of decorative art that rewards prolonged attention.