Maryan Besaga

Cosmology 3X belongs to the long-running Presence series, in which the artist explores the possibility of giving visual form to invisible processes — energy, movement, vibration, and the interaction of different systems.

The surface of the work is composed of thousands of short pastel strokes. They resemble traces of touch — a kind of imprint of presence, from which dense fields of yellow, gold, and dark tones gradually emerge. The individual gesture almost disappears, yet the accumulation of gestures creates a pulsating environment that may evoke, simultaneously, earth, an energy field, or an immeasurable cosmic space.

In the upper part of the composition, a geometric structure enters this organic field. Straight lines form a complex system of intersections, like an unknown graphic presence superimposed upon the natural rhythm of the environment. It may be perceived as an attempt to impose order, a diagram, a sign, or a fragment of a system whose nature remains undefined.

The contrast between the living pulsation of the texture and the geometry creates the central tension of the work — between the natural and the constructed, the chaotic and the ordered, the visible environment and the invisible force that leaves its trace within it.

Pastel is essential here. The direct contact of the medium with the surface preserves the physicality of the gesture: each stroke becomes not only colour, but also a trace of touch and time.