Primordial Wave

Primordial Wave captures the instant when the sea’s original pulse collides with memory. Working flat on the studio floor, I pour acrylic washes and hydrophobic oil pigments together, allowing their natural repulsion to trace capillary borders that echo breaking surf. Transparent glass beads are sifted into still‑wet passages like crystallised salt, catching light and scattering it back as flickers of foam. What first appears as a monochrome emerald field gradually reveals submerged strata—scratches, fissures, silt‑like granules—mirroring how time erodes and rewrites coastal geology. The 193.9 × 130.3 cm scale invites the viewer’s peripheral vision, so the painting is experienced not as an image but as an environment: you stand at the tideline, hearing the hush between advancing and receding water. In this work, colour, texture and chance choreography become a single breath, suggesting that innocence, once lost, can resurface like a wave—altered, yet undeniably alive.