UNTITLED 009

Untitled 009, 2025   36 x 36 in   Acrylic on canvas   This piece lives in contrast: between order and freedom, light and shadow, certainty and instinct. A sweeping, pale gesture curves across a deep, textured black backdrop, dripping softly as it moves. Imperfect, intentional, human. Scattered across the canvas are quiet vertical marks, like flickers of memory or distant signals. Their meaning isn’t given. It’s earned through looking.   For Ellis, this work reflects the quiet resistance that abstract art offers—a break from the structure and systems that often shape his daily life. Here, he lets go. The brush decides. The canvas listens.   The composition holds a tension that is deeply felt but not easily explained. It is the kind of piece that shifts meaning depending on who stands in front of it. Some will see solitude. Others, strength. Some will see a journey beginning. Others, one closing.   It is a work for the collector who understands that meaning isn’t always loud, and that th