Flux Abyss, oil on canvas, 84x120 inches, 2025

Flux Abyss is part of a series of landscape paintings created entirely from imagination. These works, marked by a surreal and abstract quality, invite chance, intuition, and discovery to shape visual experiences that echo familiar geologic forms in states of transformation.  Lines, shapes, and repetitive motifs evolve organically, allowing unpredictable elements to find their place. Rocks, rivers, flora, and fauna emerge as indiscernible yet resonant shapes, creating landscapes that blur the boundaries between the tangible and the imagined.

My work emerges from a deep reverence for the natural world, not only for its beauty but for the ways it informs a sense of spirituality. Through abstraction, I explore the intersection of nature’s physical forms and its enigmatic depths seeking to convey the rhythms, tensions, and harmonies that connect us to the living earth.

These abstractions align with a lineage of traditions and artists who have sought to use abstraction as a language of spirituality, from indigenous art forms that incorporate abstraction to convey spiritual concepts, cosmologies, and connections to the land, to the esoteric symbolism of Hilma af Klint, and the meditative geometries of Agnes Martin. Like these predecessors, I aim to distill nature’s complexity into a visual expression that transcends the literal, inviting viewers into a shared space of reflection and connection.

 At the heart of my practice is the idea that abstraction serves as a bridge between the seen and the unseen. Nature, with its endless layers of meaning and materiality, mirrors the principles of superposition—states of being that are both distinct and intertwined. My paintings are meditative spaces, where the act of creation becomes a spiritual practice, and the resulting works become portals for exploring identity, memory, and the sacred.

 -Steven J. Yazzie