Intermezzo

Intermezzo names a transitional period in my painting — the moment between a more distilled, more controlled stage and a direction that was still unformed.

The earliest works in the series still hold the quiet and transparency of the previous stage — diffuse horizons, pastel palette, fine, almost restrained gesture. As the series progresses, this quiet begins to give way: the filter thins, the gesture thickens, the image moves closer to a direct kind of painting, unnegotiated with the viewer. Intermezzo follows exactly this process — not a sudden break, but a gradual slide from abstraction toward visceral expression, captured work by work.

Visually, the series functions as a state of transition — it keeps the compositional research structure from earlier series, but begins to push against it, testing how much a controlled image can withstand before giving way to raw, unfiltered gesture.