Blue Wave
Blue is both a colour and a form of energy, a concentric force. Its inward movement, its tendency to withdraw from the spectator turns toward its own centre. In the paintings, blue operates as a containing force, an enclosing field against which other colours and forms appear charged and compressed. Red and orange elements seem to advance within this space, while blue draws everything back toward depth. This inward pull gives the colour a spatial and emotional weight.
Blue Wave 1. Oil and acrylic paint on aluminium sheet. 150 x 125 cm. 2019
Blue becomes a place rather than a surface, something that can be entered mentally. Its retreat from the viewer opens a passage toward interiority and distance. The blue wave creates a field of quiet intensity. The deeper the blue becomes, the stronger this sense of depth and internal gravity feels. Blue holds a high level of tension while remaining restrained. The forms that appear within this field are reduced and architectural. Blocks, houses, walls, and vertical elements stand as constructed presences, simple and direct, almost schematic. They exist as facts on the surface of the painting, clearly defined yet strangely isolated. I am interested in how these elements feel solid and modulatory, as if they could shift or be displaced by the energy that surrounds them. The wave in the title refers to the paintings as registering a wave of force passing through colour and structure.
Blue becomes a carrier of intensity and against it, the red and orange forms appear charged, compressed, and held in tension. Colour relationships are used structurally, to suggest pressure, friction, and containment. My thinking around this series is informed by Stoic philosophy, particularly the distinction between force and surface.
Blue Wave 2. Oil and acrylic paint on aluminium sheet. 150 x 125 cm. 2019
I am drawn to the idea that a plan of being exists as depth and force, while another plan of being (events) unfold on the surface as incorporeal facts, as described by Deleuze:
“[The Stoics distinguished] two radical planes of being, something that no one had done before them: on the one hand, real and profound being, force; on the other, the plane of facts, which frolic on the surface of being, and constitute an endless multiplicity of incorporeal beings.”
In these paintings, the architectural forms sit on the surface plane, appearing as almost factual presences while simultaneously holding a force of being. I avoid narrative or contextual settings so that these relationships remain unresolved. The spaces feel suspended and slightly unreal, allowing attention to settle on the interaction between depth and surface, between force and form, rather than on story or explanation.
With Blue Wave, I am interested in how painting can be both force and fact at the same time. The works do not depict movement or action but sustain a continuous energetic state. Colour, structure, and perception remain in tension. The wave does not pass through and disappear. It stays, holding the space in a condition of quiet intensity.
Small House. Oil paint and acrylic on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2023
Flower Force. Oil paint and acrylic on canvas. 150 x 100 cm. 2023
Surface of being. Oil paint and acrylic on canvas. 150 x 100 cm. 2023
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