Inner Flower

"Inner Flower"
canvas, original technique, 70х50cm
2022

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Form in this work gathers itself like a bloom, yet this bloom has nothing to do with calm or natural harmony. Out of a dark, dense environment bursts a complex petal-like mass — violet, crimson, pale, almost ashen — and around it the space begins to crack with heat, light, and inner pressure. On the right, a blinding bright zone flares up; on the left, the depth remains viscous, heavy, almost bottomless. Between them an image appears in which the petal reads at once as a wound, a wing, a fold of fabric, and the trace of an explosion. This instability of form is crucial for me: it keeps the work from becoming decorative abstraction and preserves within it the sense of a living, painful transformation.

I do not see a flower here as a motif, but the moment when inner energy has already broken through its shell and has not yet taken on its final shape. That is why the work is held by the clash between beauty and fracture, opening and burn. The dark center not only gathers the composition, but creates a pull inward, as if everything visible were being born from a depth that already carries the mark of loss. That tension is where its force emerges for me.