Maryan Besaga

 "Presence" — after conflict and struggle, space begins to recover. Dark structures remain part of what has been endured, yet light and colour return through them. The fragmented environment gradually regains its inner stability.

Presence speaks of a strength that cannot be seen directly, but can be felt in the ability to endure. It is a state following an inner struggle, when what has been experienced does not disappear, but is transformed into experience, faith, and a renewed sense of wholeness. The motifs of sacrifice and purification remain here not as literal images, but as the possibility of transition — from destruction to renewal, from darkness to light.

After many years of exploring how the invisible might become manifest through traces, rhythm, and shifts within a field, Presence has acquired an existential meaning: that which enables a person to endure when the external order collapses.