Artist Statement / Narrative
Painted in the aftermath of the 2024 eclipse, this piece emerged from a raw and startling moment. I had just come out of surgery and stepped outside to witness the rare cosmic alignment. Expecting awe and shared reverence, I instead found a crowd with eyes lowered to their screens — recording the event rather than experiencing it.
Earlier eras met eclipses with silence, unity, and wonder. In contrast, the moment I saw was mediated through devices, fractured into data before it was lived.
In The Eclipse of Attention, the blackened sun radiates broken light, a stained-glass geometry splintered by distraction. Figures, blindfolded by their phones, reach upward but never truly see. The central eclipse becomes a voided eye — the absence of presence, the eclipse of human attention.
This Somatic Signal™ is both a critique and a call: to remember the difference between looking and witnessing.
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Placement & Collector Notes
This large-format Somatic Signal™ is ideal for collector homes, lobbies, galleries, or hospitals where the themes of presence, distraction, and awe resonate. It is part of the Large Tapestry Somatic Signal™ tier, also referred to publicly as a Signal Tapestry™.
