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Solaris
Autor
Aida Alexandrescu
Medium
oil on canvas
Year
2023
Solaris is not a landscape. It is a phenomenon. A memory of light. A pulse. The image does not depict the sun — it becomes it. The colors surge outward in waves, not as symbols of warmth or hope, but as the very language of expansion. This is a portrait of illumination from the inside out.
The central arc — part horizon, part threshold — holds the intensity of something being born, or perhaps returning. Beneath it, strata of green, violet, gold, and blue fold into each other like the layers of thought, emotion, atmosphere, terrain. Nothing is still.
Everything is in flux, but the flux has rhythm. Like breath. Like a heart reorganizing itself around a new source of gravity.
Solaris is a state, not a scene. It is what happens when the self becomes permeable to light — not soft light, not gentle insight, but the overwhelming clarity that rearranges. It does not soothe; it sears. But through that burn, it reveals color as consciousness, and space as a living field.
There is no narrative here, only sensation. No direction, only orbit. In that way, Solaris is not an image you look at. It is an energy you stand inside. And when you do, time becomes heat, and form becomes wavelength.

