About the work

Poet’s Eyes in Stripes

Study I · from the series Pentagon
Wax pastel, graphite, and colored pencils on paper
50 × 30.9 cm · 2026
Unique original work, signed by the artist

In a vertical format, color is arranged in bands, like a cross-section of the plant from top to bottom. At the top, a deep bluish green. In the center, the orange band where the poet’s eyes bloom, overlapping, with the pentagon traced over each corolla and the translucent trace of their petals turning around it. Below, the orange dissolves into a luminous yellow dotted with small white stars and descends into ever deeper greens where the leaves become triangles. The flower is still recognizable, but it is already beginning to turn into geometry.

It is the first study in the series Pentagon: five five-petaled flowers through which the artist abstracts the color and geometry of nature. The palette is not invented; it is taken from the flower itself, from its color combinations and the patterns of vibration that sustain it, to be condensed into a work.

This study gave rise to three more devoted to the poet’s eye and, from them, two works: Verticalities, in progress, and Constellation, in preparation. In both, the vibration of the petals’ intense orange becomes the background, and the energy of the black and violet of the flower’s throat becomes the body and structure of the composition. Whoever acquires this piece will own the starting point of that entire line of work: the moment when the flower is still present and its color begins to break free of it.