Description

Corporate Cosmos (2026)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison

Artwork Description:

Corporate Cosmos is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison exploring ambition, illusion, progress, and the fragile boundary between innovation and spectacle. Through a blend of hyperreal charcoal rendering and expressive abstraction, this work reflects on modern corporate culture and humanity’s relentless pursuit of expansion.

At the centre of the composition, a suited businessman wearing an astronaut helmet runs forward with urgency. He clutches a rope tied to an inflatable space shuttle drifting above him, suspended like a balloon against a sweeping teal and cosmic sky. The shuttle, rendered in careful charcoal realism, feels both monumental and strangely weightless — a symbol of aspiration, industry, and the race toward technological dominance.

The surrounding sky erupts in layered splashes of turquoise, black, and gold, forming a universe that feels energetic yet unstable. The paint drips downward from the horizon line, subtly suggesting that what appears elevated may in fact be fragile or melting under its own ambition. The contrast between the grounded figure and the floating shuttle raises quiet questions: Who is leading whom? Is he controlling the dream, or is the dream carrying him?

The astronaut helmet conceals identity, transforming the figure into an archetype rather than an individual. It hints at the corporate race to conquer space, markets, and status — but also at the isolation that often accompanies success. The rope becomes a visual metaphor for tethered ambition: progress tied to perception, reality anchored to illusion.

Corporate Cosmos invites the viewer to interpret the scene through multiple lenses. It can be read as celebration — humanity boldly running toward the stars. It can be satire — a critique of inflated markets and corporate spectacle. Or it can be existential — a reflection on how modern life blurs the line between authentic achievement and manufactured momentum.

Through his evolving Motusrealism practice, Harrison merges realism with expressive abstraction to create layered meaning without dictating a single narrative. Corporate Cosmos is both playful and profound — a portrait of modern ambition drifting between gravity and space.

Details:

Title: Corporate Cosmos (2026)
Artist: Ashvin Harrison
Medium: Coconut charcoal powder, acrylics, and oil paints on canvas
Canvas: Premium museum-grade stretched cotton canvas
Size: 76 x 61 cm (24 x 30 inches)
Presentation: Stretched canvas, ready to hang
Technique: Charcoal realism with expressive layered splashes and abstraction
Finish: Multi-layered gesso base, sealed with archival museum-grade fixatives
Authenticity: Signed on the front; hand-signed and dated on the reverse; includes signed certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Professionally packaged with full insurance for secure delivery

Additional Artwork Information

Ashvin Harrison paints realistic artworks inspired by real life posing people and nature, photographs or imagination. Also, all artworks have a charcoal dust element to them. This painting, like most pieces, is a mixture of acrylics, acrylic medium thinners, acrylic medium flows and also mixing additives with charcoal dust paint. This completely new made up approach to create art is a large part of Ashvin’s fast growing popularity in the art world.

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If this artwork is not the one for you, please check out the Artworks in Stock Page. Contact Ashvin to discuss a custom commissioned artwork. Ashvin can also create on different size formats of rolled or ready to hang artworks. Also, Ashvin offers super sized rolled canvas artworks up to 265cm (104″).