Center II
Center II
Diptych · Acrylic pouring on canvas
120x120 cm each panel · 2021
Two dark centers from which color is born. Around them, blue, gold, and white open out in irregular rings, like waves moving away from their source and dissolving into black.
I painted this diptych in 2021, in my mother’s studio, before I had left my job to devote myself to art. But the intuition was already in me that art could be a way of expanding consciousness.
As I painted, I felt the color flowing outward from the center, untamed, like a spring. With pouring, you don’t draw: you pour the paint and let it find its own way. The gesture becomes observation and silence. Each panel is the record of that encounter between intention and what the material decides for itself.
I chose these colors to create a space of stillness and calm. I wanted a minimalist, evocative work, able to connect with whoever looks at it and invite them to pause at their own center. Years later, the dark interior of a flower would bring me back to this same question of the center.
Centers was an exploration of the technique, but also of myself.
