At the beginning of the pandemic, the artist noticed an emergence of symmetry in her lexicon of imagery. It brought her to explore how symmetric images affect the mind and suggest stability and safety. She took inspiration from visions occurring in altered states of consciousness, including her experience with the Lucia N°03 hypnagogic light machine. This device exerts wide-spectrum solid and flickering light in varying frequency combinations inducing the brain to see extremely vivid, colourful, and perfectly symmetric mandala formations melting from one into the other, sometimes in three dimensions. The light produced by the machine is not coloured and has no shape, it is experienced with closed eyes through the eyelids, and the images are created by the brain, unique to the experiencer. This encounter sparked a longing to make these images visible for the eye so they can be shared. The artist's method of painting is accidental and organic; hence she created symmetry by mirroring the image of her painting digitally. This resulted in an intricate and mesmerising pattern that closely imitates her vision during the described experience.
The image is printed on Dibond and is embellished with transparent enamel the same way the original painting was created, covering the entire surface cell-by-cell. This meticulous process that takes a long time to accomplish gives shape to a unique cellular texture.
