Alone, Still Moving by xUEkA
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 130 x 162 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $7500.00 USD
Status: available
This large-scale piece is built from hundreds of hand-drawn symbols, patterns, and marks that create a dense, hypnotic field across the entire surface. In the middle of this visual maze, a subtle orange figure appears, a person walking forward. The work represents the individual journey each of us must take. The orange figure is not outlined; it is revealed through contrast, emerging only when the viewer slows down and looks deeper. This mirrors the message behind the piece: clarity appears through persistence. Created during a period marked by the loss of the artist’s parents, Alone, Still Moving carries a strong emotional presence. It is about grief, solitude, and the determination to continue moving, step by step. “Every mark is a step. Every symbol is a choice. Alone, still moving.”
Why collect this work?
Dense repetition makes looking itself the subject: the central person is difficult to isolate because pattern continually pulls attention back toward the wider field.
- The artist describes these recurring signs as a personal visual language shaped by structure and intuition. Here they operate less like legible characters than competing units of attention.
- In the photograph, rings, dotted bands, small grids, and angular motifs fill the composition without a resting point. The catalogue identifies an orange walking figure near the centre, but its low visual separation leaves recognition uncertain and reversible.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, measuring 130 by 162 centimetres, the painting sets narrow lines and small marks against a dark ground. Acrylic can maintain such distinct edges across an extensive field, while the photograph cannot confirm surface texture or exact colour.
- The artist links the 2025 painting to bereavement and continuing onward. Its curatorial force lies in making persistence perceptual: progress is present, yet never detached from the complexity surrounding it.
About the Artist
xUEkA
xUEkA is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Porto, PT.
Nationality: Portuguese
I build languages.
