Force of Nature (are you one, or do you let yourself be overwhelmed by?) originated from an unusual gesture. The material was applied in a swirling motion, abandoning the order of the orthogonal layers that usually structure my work. The vortex appeared before the image itself: a physical movement of the hand attempting to give form to an inner condition. The sensation of being pulled under while, at the same time, being traversed by an intense energy impossible to contain.
Water was the first element to emerge. The spiral evokes the movement of a current that swallows and drags everything with it, but also that of a turbine transforming the force of a fall into energy. For a long time, the work remained suspended within this aquatic dimension: blues and turquoise inhabited the surface like a liquid landscape, deep and unstable.
Later, another necessity arose. To the movement of water was added that of fire. The lower part of the canvas ignites with oranges, reds, and yellows that invade the composition and alter the meaning of the image. No longer merely a vortex of water, it becomes the meeting point of opposing yet equally untamable natural forces—elements capable of destroying and generating, consuming and sustaining, annihilating and making life possible.
The work does not offer a solution. Rather, it questions the position we choose to occupy in relation to these energies. Do we allow ourselves to be swept away by the current, burned by the flame, carried along by their movement? Or do we learn to remain at their center, recognizing their power and finding a way to transform it into a resource?
The vortex is a place of possibility. Like the forces of nature it represents, it retains an irreducible ambivalence: it fascinates precisely because it contains both the risk of destruction and the promise of energy. The question remains open: how do we choose to stand before such force?
