Five on the First

August 2026
Nate Ethier

“My work deals with time, color, light, pattern, and human touch. I’ve long thought of pattern and pattern making as means to create something visually regenerative, or a sort of visual perpetual motion machine. The resulting painting, with all its accreted and organized marks being the visual record of the meditation that is found in the process. I see repetition and consistency of touch as a method to transmit care, and a sense of care, to whomever receives it. The illusion of projected light conveyed in my pictures gives each one of them a sense of life, action, and exuberant coexistence with the viewer.

Inspiration for the shapes and motifs at play in my work comes from the dappling effect of sunlight through forest canopies, stained glass arrangements, sun angle charts, wind patterns, bird murmuration, the moon, concert lighting, botanical order, archways, windows, brutalism, romanticism, and surely many other subconscious interventions.”

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