Its own room

Silences So Deep

Ross Collado · Mixed media on canvas · 30″ h × 40″ w

Nothing here has been enhanced. Everything you see is derived from the object — the record below says exactly how each view was made.

Silences So Deep by Ross Collado
Set your screen once. Hold a bank card against the screen and slide until the orange outline matches its width.

The surface under moving light

This view is built only from real photographs of the work, each lit from a different angle, so you can move the light yourself and watch the real surface answer. It is being captured in the studio and will appear here. Until then we show nothing rather than an imitation.

I walked into this one not knowing where it would take me — an abstracted melding of skyscape and cityscape where the silence isn't empty, it's heavy. The big move here was letting that dark mid-section hold its ground against the heat of the orange and the cold glow below, trusting that tension rather than resolving it. These are not calm waters; this is a series of intense moments frozen into a single frame.

Mixed media on canvas, 30 × 40 in.

The Authenticity Record

ViewMade fromProcessing
The whole work, deep zoom, loupe, true sizeGallery photograph of the workNone beyond resizing for the web

Nothing on this page is retouched, relit in software or generated. A full studio capture of this work is scheduled.

ArtistRoss Collado
MediumMixed media on canvas
Size30″ h × 40″ w
Price$4,300