Quintessence (197)

In this painting, the cosmic breath takes the form of a blaze of rose and gold, spreading at the heart of deep green darkness. It looks like a subterranean dawn, a secret fire pulsing within the very entrails of matter. Reds entwine with luminous yellows, like an inner flame carrying the promise of renewal amid chaos. The greens, meanwhile, evoke sap—the vegetal origin of life—a fertile ground where fire finds room to diffuse. The whole seems to breathe like a living organism, a glowing inhalation followed by a shadowed exhalation. The hues melt into one another, as though the universe is ever seeking its balance in the eternal ebb and flow of creation. And what if the mystery of our being lay in welcoming both this fire and this darkness together, as two inseparable breaths of the same primordial song?