Meridian Print

This collage is one of my very first in the series. Among my graphic resources, I had two beautiful white spheres, whose satin-like, velvety texture particularly appealed to me. I also had a collection of painted landscapes created using AI, in a minimalist, stylized, and slightly surrealist painting style, featuring soft, uniform tones, nearly abstract. These landscapes depict flat, peaceful meadows stretching toward the horizon with only subtle undulations and a few white clouds stretching across the sky, imbuing the image with a tranquil and almost ethereal atmosphere, with equally soft, velvety textures. * After placing the spheres in the image, I wanted to add geometric elements of various shapes and colors. It then felt necessary to "connect" them in some way, so I quickly drew an abstract connecting line by hand (in this case, using my touchpad). Now, black lines suspend them from somewhere beyond the top of the image, as if held upward by an imaginary force. I particularly like the contrast and tension these lines produce. Without them, something decisive would be missing in the image for me. They give structure, dynamism, and a sense of connectivity between the different elements. They also suggest that these floating objects are part of a larger, unseen system. * So, why did I create this image in this way? I aim to communicate visually what words cannot. I am sensitive to space and the sensation of depth. I want to explore abstract themes and the connection between abstraction and reality, between the conceptual and the tangible. Although depicting our planet Earth, this landscape feels distant, disconnected from the real universe, as though it belongs to the past, like a memory. Is such an image, for me, a sort of meditation or an escape from the real world? A metaphor for my search for inner balance? All I know is that I have a preference for surrealism and poetry, and perhaps this is how I express myself most freely.