Nikko Mundacruz Padua, b. 2000
I Need Silence And An Ice Cream, 2025
Oil on canvas
50 x 35 cm
This painting captures the absolute, regenerative stillness of the physical world that mirrors the interior state of rest after depletion. In a sweeping blue landscape, the chaotic brushstrokes of the...
This painting captures the absolute, regenerative stillness of the physical world that mirrors the interior state of rest after depletion. In a sweeping blue landscape, the chaotic brushstrokes of the 'sea' or ground resolve into a calm, focused horizontal band of light, suggesting the patient, quiet process of rediscovering balance. The dark, starry 'sky' above is not an empty void, but a vast, silent space of potentiality. As the physical and the cerebral meet at the horizon, this work provides a visual vessel for that delicate moment where the exhausted mind and body slowly begin to regenerate, grounded in a suspended and profound quietude.
