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 symbolizes 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.