Its own room

Still, We Belong

Ross Collado · Mixed Media on Canvas · 18″ h × 18″ w

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

Still, We Belong 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.

A weathered barn sits alone on the horizon line, very small, under a sky that takes four fifths of the canvas. Collado paints that sky as a single worked field of cream and blush and cold grey, scraped back and reworked so it holds atmosphere without holding an event. Below the horizon the ground is dark — blue-green, umber, dragged in short vertical strokes that never resolve into specific vegetation. The barn is the only made thing and it is barely there. This is a painting about scale and the title argues with it: the structure is dwarfed, and it stays.

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
Size18″ h × 18″ w
Price$975