Ch'i, The Subtle Space

In this painting, an incandescent breath sweeps across the canvas like a primordial wave, red and gold, pulsing with vital energy. The luminous, almost ethereal background evokes the vastness of the skies and the original waters, those the Genesis speaks of as touched by the Spirit hovering above. Here, the pictorial gesture embodies the Chinese ch’i or Japanese k’i, that subtle principle that shapes, animates, and connects all things. The red surge, pure and radiant, seems to bring forth movement, life, the very world itself. Within the space it crosses, everything becomes possible: the balance of forces, the union of opposites, the breath of an endless creation.