Echoes of the Interior

Titel: S = (t ⋅ ∞) / Ø
Alt title: 1st stage (Shock)

Oil on Canvas
130x180

Echoes of the Interior

In this series of seven paintings, I have tried to express an inner landscape that navigates through the early and most turbulent phases of grief.
Each canvas is saturated with psychologically resonant colour - icy pale blue, inflammatory green, fevered deep crimsons and bruised indigos - that evoke the fragmented interior world of the grieving self and the emotional temperatures: the endless void of emptiness in depression, the temperature of anger, the drowning hues of denial. The layered and flowing textures resist resolution, often fraying at the edges, refusing harmony.

Central to each painting is a recurring formal device: a nearly compact 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 praise 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 explore discomfort, to let the eye adjust, and to recognize that descent is not the opposite of growth - it is often its beginning.