Sunrise

"Sunrise"
canvas, original technique, 33,5x66,5cm
2023

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Sunrise in this work does not arrive gently — it breaks through dense, still nocturnal matter like light that must literally fight for space. The vertical format intensifies that sense of ascent: from below rises a cold blue-and-white depth, viscous, aqueous, almost bottomless, and above it a warm fracture of ochre, black, rust-brown, and flashes of yellow takes hold. Light does not spread evenly across the surface; it ignites at the boundary where darkness is still resisting, and that is precisely why it feels so sharp and alive.

For me, sunrise here is not a landscape motif, but a moment of transition, when form has not yet gained stability and everything exists in a state of inner shift. The upper part reads like a tangled, heavy layer of earth, roots, memory, or charred matter, while the lower holds the liquidity and depth of water, sleep, and the unconscious. Between them a tense line of contact emerges, where the birth of light has already taken place, but the world has not yet had time to settle. That is why the work holds attention not through the promise of a clear day, but through the very effort of emergence — difficult, beautiful, and not entirely safe.