Maryan Besaga

Insomnia IX explores a state of inner tension in which consciousness exists on the threshold between exhaustion and excessive activity. Thoughts lose their clear sequence, overlap, disappear, and unexpectedly return as fragments, colours, and emotional impulses.

The surface of the canvas is constructed through numerous horizontal rhythms and layers of paint. The dark upper layer seems to conceal what lies beneath it, yet fragments of red, green, violet, and blue continue to emerge through the surface. What is hidden does not disappear — it changes the form of its presence.

Texture acquires particular significance here. Repeated lines create an almost monotonous rhythm, resembling the continuous movement of thought returning again and again to the same images and experiences. At the same time, vivid eruptions of colour disrupt this monotony, appearing as brief flashes of memory or emotion.

In Insomnia IX, there is no longer a need for a specific image. The surface itself becomes an image of the inner state — a kind of record of consciousness in which memory exists simultaneously as layering, erasure, and trace.

The work speaks of the impossibility of completely erasing what has been experienced. Even when concealed beneath new layers, it remains part of the present — as a barely visible fragment, a rhythm, or an energetic trace.