The moon

"The moon"
canvas, original technique, 70х60cm
2023

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The moon in this work does not hang in the sky as a calm point of orientation — it becomes the center of a quiet, almost magical tension. The yellow circle in the upper part draws the eye, yet the real force emerges below, where the small black animal figure seems to enter into a silent exchange with that light. The white stream rising upward reads at once as breath, voice, and a fragile link between a earthly creature and a distant source of attraction. Against this, the red-pink field with its blue, lilac, and milky shifts begins to live as a space of dream, memory, and inner vision, where everything feels both real and elusive.

What matters to me is that the image does not reduce itself to a scene of night or loneliness. The red ground does not warm the space; it makes it stranger, more tense, almost boundless. The dog’s figure is extremely simple, nearly emblematic, and that is exactly why it carries so much vulnerability and endurance. I build the work on the contrast between the childlike clarity of the silhouette and the complex, fluid atmosphere around it. The moon therefore becomes not just a celestial body, but a point of attraction for an inner feeling that cannot be fully explained, only sharply felt.