The color palette speaks to us of waiting for dawn. The pale, cerulean blue of the upper left quadrant evokes that cold, suspended light that precedes sunrise, neither night nor day. The deep navy blue in the lower left embodies the still-present, dense, and resistant night. And the luminous coral in the lower right expresses a promise: the warmth of the coming morning, a dawn embodied in the paint itself.

Texture as an emotional state

The surface is not smooth. I created scratches, rubs, traces of passage, particularly visible in the rust-brown area at the top and in the worked navy blue. It is the texture of insomnia, of time stretching out, of consciousness wandering before dawn.

There are white spaces, voids between the colored areas. This fragmentation evokes the mental state of someone waiting for morning: thoughts haven't yet coalesced, coherence belongs to the coming day.

The work speaks to us of the act of waiting, with all the tension, hope, and lingering darkness that this implies.