In the realm of shadow’s whisper, Dances a cipher unclad, Drifting in seas of never-was, Speaking in tongues of the void unbound.
It steps in silence, vast and deep, A lexicon, scribed in air, Through labyrinths, undefined they creep, Unseen tapestries, woven bare.
Dreams half-caught, in twilight’s breath, Echoes dance in styles unknown, Breathing truths, enigmatic, deft, A nomad builds in realms unshown.
A shadow, born of absent light, Treads a path, unseen, unswayed, A language lost, in eternal night, An artist, brushless, unafraid.
In silence, a symphony unplayed, On Plato's wall, mere shadows sway, A mirage, in formless deserts made, Fireflies dance, then fade away.
And in this cryptic, endless land, I am the whisper of dawn, heralding day.
This body of work is an exploration of the sfumato technique and tonalism. Sfumato is defined as “the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.” This gradual shift in form and color, as well as spatial ambiguity, is further realized in the work here through using a chromatic color scheme. The result is that of the work shifting, eliding, dematerializing, and transforming before the eye and never finding complete resolution.
