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Miami In The Book Of Time (2025)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison
“To hold the story — the time, place, and possibility within it.”

Artwork Description:

Miami In The Book of Time is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison — a vibrant fusion of realism, imagination, and the limitless potential contained within a single moment. Created as one of the featured artworks for display at the Art Miami Fair during Art Basel 2025 with The Wall Art Gallery, this piece explores the power of memory, narrative, and the way place becomes part of who we are.

At the centre of the composition, a hyperreal charcoal hand lifts an open book — steady, deliberate, and filled with intention. Etched into the cover is a vivid painted scene of Miami at dusk: palm trees silhouetted against a glowing sky as a couple rides a moped along the shoreline, capturing the essence of freedom, youth, and the electric pulse of the city. A small smiley face hidden on the suit’s button adds a subtle hint of warmth and playfulness — a reminder that joy is often tucked into the smallest moments.

From within the book erupts an explosion of expressive turquoise, teal, white, gold, and midnight splashes — a universe bursting out of the pages. Planets emerge from the cosmic motion, swirling through the air as if time and space have been released. This eruption symbolises narrative expansion: how stories grow, how destinations shape destiny, and how memories stretch far beyond the moment they were lived.

Miami In The Book of Time embodies Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism — the harmony between precise charcoal realism and energetic abstraction. It is a tribute to the city of Miami, to transformation, and to the belief that any moment — when held with intention — can become a universe of its own.

Title: Miami In The Book of Time (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal, acrylics, oil paints, metallic pigments, sparkle medium
Canvas: Premium museum-grade 12oz stretched cotton canvas (Australian hardwood stretcher bars, 4cm deep)
Size: 61 x 91 cm (24 x 36 inches)
Technique: Charcoal brushing realism with expressive abstraction and splatter dynamics
Finish: Five layers of white gesso, sealed with archival museum-grade fixatives
Presentation: Professionally stretched, ready to hang
Authenticity: Signed on front in art ink; hand-signed and dated on back; includes signed certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Global delivery with full insurance and premium protective packaging

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.

Please contact me if you would like to see more photos or also seek more information about this artwork. All artworks ship for free to any country and also location within. Insurance and import taxes paid for by Ashvin, making for stress free purchasing and arrival of your new painting.

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″).