About the work

Vinca in Stripes
Study II · from the series Pentagon
Wax pastel, graphite, and colored pencils on paper
50 × 30.9 cm (golden ratio) · 2026
Unique original work, signed by the artist

The composition is divided into two halves that answer each other. In the center, a luminous line traversed by waves marks the axis. Above, five circles in which light spirals around a white point: flowers that have not yet taken shape. Below, their counterparts: five vincas with spiraling violet petals, inscribed in a pentagon, with golden centers. Two white bands frame the violet, and from them the color opens toward a luminous yellow and descends into ever deeper greens, crossed by fine vertical lines.

It is the second study in the series Pentagon. The vinca is an everyday flower, but the spiral turn of its petals evokes the golden ratio, which is why the paper was cut to that same proportion: the format and the flower answer to a single law. From there, the study explores three Hermetic principles. Vibration appears in the wave running along the axis and in the color flowing from one band to the next. Correspondence, in what repeats above and below. Polarity, in the passage from the flower in potential to the flower made matter.

The vibrating line was not planned. While studying the flower, the artist discovered the two green leaves that support it from behind. When she added them, the meeting of green and violet began to vibrate, and the wave was born to follow that movement. The study preserves that decision, made along the way, which a finished work would no longer reveal.