Poet’s Eyes among Shrubs
Poet’s Eyes among Shrubs
Preliminary study · from the series Pentagon
Gouache and gold pen on 300 g/m² watercolor paper
21 x 27.9 cm · 2026
Unique original work, signed by the artist
Includes certificate of authenticity
Against a background of deep, almost nocturnal greens, where the grain of the paper surfaces through the color, a constellation of poet’s eye flowers (Thunbergia alata) is scattered, reduced to their essential structure: the pentagon. At the center of each one there is an eye. The flower’s name becomes literal, and the shrubs we walk past without stopping suddenly look back at us.
Around each flower, the gold line turns in concentric orbits, like the vibration emanating from a living core. At the base, a band of luminous ochre holds up the composition, like earth or like light.
This preliminary study opened the series Pentagon, an inquiry into pentagonal geometry in nature, consciousness, and the perception of reality through an artistic gaze. The pentagon, a shape that holds the golden ratio within it, recurs in everyday five-petaled flowers; five is also the number that has accompanied the artist since she began painting. The series takes five of these flowers and searches each one for the structure that sustains it beneath matter.
A preliminary study is the place where an idea is thought through for the first time. It holds the decisions, the discoveries, and the freedom to explore without fear of error: everything a finished work no longer lets you see. This piece is the starting point of everything that came after, and whoever acquires it will keep the moment the series began to exist.
There will be no prints or commercial editions: the paper going up for auction is, and will remain, the only place where this image exists.
