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Ba en Khet
Project Type
oil painting
Date
2023
Autor
Aida Alexandrescu
Dimensions
60x40cm
Medium
oil on canvas
Ba en Khet is a title inspired by ancient Egyptian concepts of the soul and the transformative power of fire. Ba represents the soul’s essence—fluid, personal, and eternal—while Khet refers to the physical body or form. Together, Ba en Khet suggests the soul rising through the burning of the material self: a spiritual alchemy in which ego, fear, and illusion are reduced to ash so the essence may ascend.
The composition is a living flame. Radiant reds, deep oranges, and molten golds swirl with visceral intensity across the canvas, like sacred fire in motion. The painting emanates heat—not as destruction, but as transformation. It is the fire of rebirth, of shedding, of divine emergence. The forms move like liquid magma or arterial blood, evoking both volcanic force and the lifeblood of spirit.
This is not a flame that consumes randomly—it is conscious. A sacred fire. The energy within the painting feels distinctly feminine, like the mythic fire of Sekhmet or the tantric flame of Shakti: fierce yet healing, primal yet wise. It is the fire that guards initiation, the one that both tests and liberates. In mystical terms, it is the moment when the self is cracked open and the soul steps forward through the embers.
Ba en Khet is a visual incantation—an invitation to witness one’s own internal burning, and to see not loss, but transfiguration in the glow.

