Prima Motus is a series about the moment that precedes the formation of an image. I am interested in the state in which form has not yet acquired its final boundaries, yet within matter the first impulse has already emerged — a movement, a tension, a direction towards a future structure.

The Latin Prima Motus — “first movement” — for me refers not to the physical displacement of an object, but to the primary act of emergence. It is the moment of transition from the potential to the manifest, from uncertainty to form, from stillness to action.

In these works, I turn to images of birth, germination, unfolding, and inner transformation. Yet these associations with nature are not intended as literal subjects. A flower, an organic form, light, or a fragment of the body becomes only one possible manifestation of a far more universal process — the emergence of a new state of matter.

In Prima Motus, form seems to be born directly from the painterly environment. It may remain partially concealed, dissolve into space, or, conversely, concentrate energy around itself. The boundary between figure and environment becomes unstable: it is difficult to determine where space ends and the image begins.

This uncertainty is fundamental to me. I seek to capture not the result of transformation, but the moment when transformation is only beginning.

Colour and light do not serve a merely descriptive function here either. They become the environment of emergence itself. Light may concentrate around a form, pass through it, or appear to emanate from within. Colour creates zones of varying intensity in which matter appears at times dense and at others almost immaterial.

In works such as Primrose and Birth, the organic motif can be read simultaneously on several levels: as a natural form, a bodily metaphor, a process of genesis, and an abstract model of the emergence of something new.

For me, therefore, Prima Motus is not a series about a specific act of birth. It is an exploration of the principle of birth as a universal process — the emergence of form, thought, energy, life, or a new state from something that, only a moment before, existed solely as possibility.

Within the context of my practice, the series continues my earlier explorations of invisible processes. Yet if in Transformation I was interested in the transition between different systems, and in Presence in the possibility of recognizing the invisible through the trace it leaves behind, then in Prima Motus the question moves even closer to the beginning:

Prima Motus exists precisely at this threshold — between “not yet” and “already is.”