THE BIRD

"THE BIRD"
canvas, original technique, 50х70cm
2023

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The image of the bird does not appear here literally — it assembles itself through a collision of forces, like a sudden sensation of flight, predation, or impact against the air. The upper part of the canvas moves as a heavy red-brown current, almost like a heated mass or a rupture in the sky, while on the right a complex green-turquoise form grows out of it, reading at once as eye, wing, feather, and wave. Between them a white fracture emerges — a point of tension where the space seems to compress before a sharp movement. Below, the depth becomes darker and more viscous, as if beneath this surge another, more muted force were already gathering.

The bird here, for me, is not a narrative figure, but a form of instinct, vision, and inner impulse breaking through the environment. What matters is not the recognition of a silhouette, but the state itself: alertness, sharpness, readiness to strike or vanish. That is why the work is held by the conflict between weight and lift, between the earthly density of the lower part and the almost nervous mobility above. The image never settles completely, and that is precisely what keeps attention on it: it exists on the threshold between landscape, creature, and flow of energy, where the living is still in the act of gathering itself into form.