Maryan Besaga

Presence 5.02 continues the exploration of linear rhythms, but compared with Presence 5.01, the balance of forces shifts. While in the previous work space seemed to unfold from the dark lower field toward an almost immaterial, luminous upper zone, here it becomes more saturated and enclosed within its own movement.

The composition consists of several broad chromatic states. A deep blue-violet field at the bottom transitions through a red-orange zone into a turquoise-green field. Yet these areas have no clearly defined boundaries: horizontal rhythms pass through them, gradually shifting in colour, density, and character of movement.

Here, the lines cease to be entirely horizontal. In the central part, they bend almost imperceptibly, forming a wave or vibration that propagates through the entire structure. This is no longer so much a horizon as a field through which an invisible impulse passes.

Presence 5.02 transforms an implied landscape into a field of vibrations. The horizontal layers lose their stability and begin to respond to an invisible movement passing through space. Colour and line register not a specific place, but a shift in its inner state — the moment when stillness becomes a wave.