Inspired by the title "Suspended Night" by Tomasz Stanko.

There is a structure, a musical logic, in my composition: solid masses (sustained chords, pads) which, in the lower section, break down into isolated lines, detached notes, and silences.

Suspended Night (2004, ECM), recorded in Oslo with Marcin Wasilewski, Sławomir Kurkiewicz, and Michał Miśkiewicz, is an album where Stanko and his young Polish colleagues further explore the nocturnal atmosphere already present on Soul of Things. The core of the album consists of "Variations," a central piece developed into several movements, music that unfolds in slow arcs, made of muted and sometimes mysterious subtleties, which gives full meaning to the title by leaving the listener suspended.

This idea of ​​suspension, of time not flowing linearly but floating, hesitating between fullness and emptiness, finds an echo in my painting. The two dark blocks at the top act like the sustained pads of a piano or double bass, the continuous sonic material upon which silence can settle. The bottom of the canvas, with its fraying lines and vast white void, could be Stanko's trumpet: an instrument that precisely explores the spaces between notes, showing how these silent intervals are themselves musical.

The palette itself—black, midnight blue, white—is that of a night I suggest through layers and textures, much like Stanko's characteristic muffled, grainy sound, often described as a sound that allows the silence between the notes to breathe as much as the notes themselves.

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