SWITCH

SWITCH – Original Painting

SWITCH is an original mixed-media painting that operates as a visual threshold—an image that transforms depending on orientation and perception. The work functions as a conceptual “switch,” activating two parallel readings within a single composition and inviting the viewer to cross between them.

In its primary vertical orientation, the painting reveals an enigmatic “Normal Figure” emerging from a dense, textured red field. The vibrant yellow focal elements act as eyes, suggesting sentience, awareness, and agency. Suspended along a vertical blue axis, the figure appears to exist within a cosmic or subterranean mystery universe, where identity is still forming and meaning remains unstable.

When rotated, the image undergoes a radical taxonomic shift. The figure dissolves into a botanical cross-section, transforming into a root system or stem. Cellular patterns and internal structures become legible, reframing the image as an object of scientific observation rather than a character. This oscillation between subject and specimen exposes the fragile boundary between life, knowledge, and classification.

Artwork Details

• Title: SWITCH

• Year: 2025

• Dimensions: 150 × 200 cm

• Medium: Mixed media on canvas

• Style: Contemporary abstract / conceptual figurative

• Orientation: Vertical (transformative when rotated)

• Status: Original artwork (one of a kind)

Materials & Technique

• Professional artist canvas

• Mixed media including acrylic paint, ink, and layered textural treatments

• Expressive brushwork combined with controlled graphic elements

• Rich red tonal field with contrasting blue and yellow accents

• Durable surface finish suitable for long-term display

Concept

SWITCH explores duality, perception, and transformation. By allowing the composition to shift between an animated figure and a botanical specimen, the painting questions how meaning is assigned through orientation, context, and observation. The work highlights the thin line between mystery and science, emotion and analysis, life and structure.

Ideal For

• Contemporary and conceptual art collections

• Gallery exhibitions and curatorial spaces

• Statement installations in modern interiors

• Collectors interested in perception, transformation, and visual philosophy