Not knowing not said 2026 – 50 x 40cm, acrylic on canvas
The title is the double negation that refuses both knowledge and its articulation, the condition of something that cannot be known and cannot be said, the silence that is not chosen but structural. The painting arrived at its final form through several stages, moving from day to night, plants erased from the foreground until only two remain: the one that is clambering over the ledge, and the one that was left behind.
The deep cobalt and purple-blue field is a night sky at the moment of multiple simultaneous events, none of them coordinated, none of them announced. The main flower’s yellow head is engulfed in blue mist, present within it, persisting within it. The leaves have responded by animating themselves, clambering over the ledge with urgency. The plant continues by whatever means remain available to it.
In the lower left, a small yellow flower, left behind in the dark zone below the ledge, separated from the main plant by the full width of the dark field, simply there in the lower left corner of the painting. The cost of the not-knowing, present in the smallest possible form, saying nothing.
On the mid-left, an orange beacon warns of the condition it is simultaneously producing. The contamination and the warning share the same source. The green that the series has never allowed to settle into either natural or chemical drifts from the beacon’s top into the blue night.
Above, the dark impasto mass undergoes its own eclipse, occultation proceeding without drama.
At the base, there is what appears to be a drainage of the painting’s contaminations. All of this in complete silence, in the dark, with no information provided about any of it.