Knot of Tension

"Knot of Tension"
canvas, original technique, 70х50cm
2023

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Red does not simply fill the surface here — it seizes it as a state of overheating, inner pressure, and almost continuous eruption. Black masses, white flashes, acid yellows, and cold blue insertions do not balance that tension; they break it into new centers of intensity. The diagonals crossing the plane are especially important to me: they move through the painted field like lines of fracture, routes of collision, traces of a force that has already passed through the image and altered its structure. Because of that, the space does not feel open — it feels compressed, bound, cut through, and yet still pulsing.

I build the work on the conflict between the fluidity of color and the hardness of intersection. One layer tries to spill outward, another tries to hold, cut, and direct it. That is why the image does not read as chaos, but as a moment in which different energies collide while remaining dependent on one another. What matters to me is that within this density there is not only aggression, but also a strong visual magnetism: the work holds the eye precisely because it does not let it leave this knot, where destruction has already begun but has not yet become final collapse.