Echoes of the Interior

Titel: 1st stage


Oil on Canvas


130x180

Echoes of the Interior

In this series of seven paintings, the viewer is invited into an immersive emotional landscape that navigates the early and most turbulent phases of grief.
Each canvas is saturated with psychologically resonant colour - icy whites, feeble green, deep crimsons, and bruised indigos - that evoke the fragmented interior world of the grieving self and the emotional temperatures: emptiness in denial, the heat of anger, the drowning hues of depression. The textures resist resolution, often fraying at the edges, refusing harmony.

Central to each painting is a recurring formal device: a nearly black vertical horizon that bisect the canvas. This stark boundary serves both as a symbolic divide and a metaphysical mirror - a point of no return, and simultaneously, a possible portal. It embodies the oppressive weight of loss, but also the necessity of darkness as threshold. Like a wound or an opening, this horizon both breaks and holds the composition together.

Philosophically, these works do not moralize grief; rather, they honour it as a rite of passage. The darkness is not something to escape, but something to pass through. Without it, the emerging transformation into acceptance, hope, forgiveness, would remain sentiment rather than truth. The vertical horizon dares the viewer to sit with discomfort, to let the eye adjust, and to consider that descent is not the opposite of growth - it is often its beginning.