Between Instinct and Direction
“The moment when desire takes shape and becomes encounter.”
Matter and light meet on a layered surface, where warm and deep tones — gold, ochre, red, and brown — build a vibrant field, crossed by vertical marks and glazes that suggest time and transformation.
At the center, a golden band cuts across the work with determination: a clean, swift, almost inevitable gesture. It is a trajectory that does not hesitate, a presence that carves through space like an arrow released. In this tension, a dual movement is perceived: on one side, instinct — primordial and silent; on the other, direction — clear, precise, oriented.
The work thus evokes the exact moment when something happens: the instant when desire takes shape and becomes encounter. It is not representation, but threshold — a passage where energy and intention align.
Like Cupid’s arrow, invisible yet inevitable, it crosses space and leaves a trace: a mark that alludes to an opening, a possibility, a new beginning.
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