This series also engages with the concept of the virtual, understood not as the unreal but as a mode of existence that is fully real without being actualized. The images oscillate between image perception, image dream, and image world. They are constructed as virtual images, situated between what is seen, what is remembered, and what is imagined, resisting any stable or definitive reading. In this sense, I relate the series to Deleuze’s notion of the crystal image, where the actual and the virtual coexist within the same visual field. The painted image becomes a pure recollection, not tied to a specific past event but existing as a condensed mental image. While the surfaces remain flat and composed, they open onto a temporal depth in which memory and perception fold into one another.