Stellar Heartbeat is a pictorial research on the moment in which painting ceases to be a surface to become a luminous phenomenon. The work explores the relationship between oil, porous support, and natural light, seeking for color not only to be seen, but to be perceived as an energy emerging from within the canvas.
Research and Process
Stellar Heartbeat arises from a series of trials where the painting was subjected to different lighting conditions to study how color responds to the passage of natural light. The research focused on three axes: transparency, chromatic vibration, and perceptive depth.
Natural Light Assays
The tests with natural light were decisive in the project's development. The work was placed at different times of the day in front of direct and indirect sunlight sources, allowing for the study of how the chromatic core intensifies or retreats according to the light's incidence.
Material Details
The surface is built through layers of dispersed pigment, glazes, and controlled accumulations that generate micro-fields of vibration.
The visible pores of the canvas are an essential part of the work: they are not defects, but areas where light penetrates and activates internal depth, creating a texture that oscillates between density and evaporation.
Assembly records and lighting tests
The experimental assembly allowed for the observation of how the work modifies its behavior according to inclination, distance, and height. These tests confirmed that the work needs to be thought of as a spatial device.
Assembly Records and Projection
Stellar Heartbeat opens a new line of work that evolves into later projects such as Latent Glacier. While in Stellar Heartbeat the light pulses as inner energy, in Latent Glacier that search expands toward colder atmospheres and states of mineral transparency.
"The painting does not remain fixed: it mutates, breathes, appears, and retreats."
"The work does not represent light; it contains, filters, and activates it."