Membrane of the Source
Membrane of the Source explores three states of water and light: the surface, the threshold, and the rising from below.
The works shift between transparency and density, between layered water and breathing blue.
Forms dissolve and re-form like currents touching rock, sky and depth at the same time.
In the centre piece, a membrane opens—an in-between space where above and below exist simultaneously.
Together, the paintings trace a quiet movement toward origin: a source that is both physical and inner, held in the fluid geometry of La Digue’s water and stone.
The painting existed before I understood it. The body knew first. Only later, in the water, did the meaning rise into language. I had been floating in the sea — the same clear, breathing water that shaped the work. Beneath me, the sand traced luminous lines; above me, the sky mirrored them, a web of light stretched between both worlds. As I walked along the water’s edge, the inner image suddenly took form in the real world — in the shape of a small white shell washed ashore. Thin as breath, curved like a protective skin, smooth with mother-of-pearl inside. It was the same membrane I had just understood within. A delicate hardness, almost translucent. A surface that is not quite water, not quite solid — a thin skin that opens when you move through it. Often there is no resistance at all. Only afterwards, when I rise from the painting again, do I realise I have crossed it — exhausted, astonished by what I have carried back. The title came afterwards. The knowing was already in the painting.