This piece was named after a composition by Jordi Fornies, a visual artist and composer whose music stills the mind. When I listen to it, especially the piano, my breath slows. I close my eyes, and something in me softens.
This painting evokes the same atmosphere. A fuzzy, ethereal moth in mid-flight, its delicate body drawn toward the moon. Moths navigate by moonlight, using its constant presence to orient themselves through the darkness. In that way, the moon becomes both guide and illusion.
The varying shades of blue in this piece reflect the soft glow of a "blue moon"- phenomenon that is, in truth, an optical illusion caused by ice crystals high in the atmosphere. The swooping lines mirror the moth's flight path: graceful, uncertain, yet unwavering in its devotion to that distant, glowing guide.
This painting is about that gentle pull-toward light, toward longing, toward something beyond we can fully grasp.
Beeswax, damar resin, dry pigments and shellac on cradled wood panel
