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Untearable Veil
Autor
Aida Alexandrescu
Year
2024
Dimensions
30x20 cm
Medium
oil on canvas
Untearable Veil explores the tension between dual perspectives — not as opposites, but as simultaneous truths. Two sides of the same moment. Two versions of the same story. Two voices within the same self. The composition becomes a psychological mirror: what’s visible on one side is not the negation of the other, but its reflection distorted, refracted, re-experienced.
This is not a painting about unity., it's a painting of almosts — of pressures held just before breaking, of intensities that meet without merging. The veil is not a wall, but a skin. It vibrates. It holds memory, friction, tension; about the impossibility — and the necessity — of coexisting contradictions. The canvas is split, but not severed. One half is warm, urgent, spiraling with emotional momentum. The other is cooler, denser, more internalized. Together, they suggest not conflict, but complexity: the internal negotiation between how we feel and how we frame it, between what happened and what it meant.
So in Untearable Veil color becomes emotional field: burnt oranges spiral like instinct in motion, while greens and blues fold into shadowed awareness. Neither side is whole on its own — they define each other through the refusal to collapse. What you see is not a fusion, but a sustained distance. A deliberate non-consumption.
The “veil” is the boundary that holds them apart, but not in opposition — it’s what allows both sides to be present without collapse. It is the psychological membrane that lets contradiction live without resolution. A memory versus its re-narration. An emotion versus its rationalization. A self that is fractured, but still functional.
Untearable Veil does not offer clarity — it holds ambiguity. It resists simplification. And in that resistance, it becomes not just an image, but a structure of thought:
a space where you are both the witness and the unreliable narrator.
Both the storm, and the quiet that follows — which may have never really come.
It invited the viewer to a meditation on the power of thresholds — of staying between, of knowing the other is near but not dissolving into it. It is not a wound. It is a structure. Not fragile, but essential.

