Sideral

 
Some paintings arrive fully formed. Sideral took time — layers of building, of waiting, until the central form finally made itself known.
The composition reads like a star chart: a repeating lattice of ancient cross-glyphs borders the edges, mint circles marking each node like receivers in a transmission system. A gold frame contains the whole — not decoratively, but as a field that holds something powerful inside. Beneath it all, deep crimson and black press upward.
At the centre, two biomorphic forms occupy the same space without resolving into each other. One rises in lavender, threaded with vertical lines of pink and white — frequencies, signals, interference. One grounds in dense navy blue, heavier, more interior. A threshold exists between them.
Sideral — relating to the stars. But the coordinates this work draws from exist somewhere further in: the place where coded forms surface before language arrives to name them.
Built on birchwood panel in layers of acrylic, ink, gold acrylic, gesso, and varnish. The surface accumulates depth that photography only partially captures — the texture is physical, dense, present. This work rewards living with it.
30 × 30 cm. One of a kind. Framed.