Quintessence (350)

This canvas unfolds like a genesis, a primal breath where matter stirs into motion. Flaming ochres and fiery reds spread out like a celestial flow of lava, while turquoise patches emerge as primordial cells. Everything appears to be born in a silent effervescence, a mysterious alchemy in which light and shadow, fire and water, unite to give birth to form. The eye perceives a gestation: the deep blues recall embryos of worlds, as if each turquoise sphere carries within it the promise of a future star. The golden masses, meanwhile, seem to radiate an original warmth, akin to the universe’s first glimmer. What we witness is a pictorial cosmogony, where each burst of colour embodies the vital force at work. This painting is not merely a spectacle of shapes and pigments: it tells of birth, the first impulse, the instant when chaos becomes fruitful. It invites us to feel that fragile moment when all is possible, when the universe is still a seed open to infinity. And what if what we contemplate here were nothing other than the memory of the first breath, that by which the Creator transformed emptiness into light, and the invisible into visible beauty?