Roots of Light by xUEkA
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 120 cm
Year: 2025
Status: available
When I painted this work, I envisioned life as a current that never ceases. The fish at the center is the soul in motion, radiant, alive, and always moving forward. Its spiral eye reminds me of eternity, of cycles without beginning or end. Around it, the universe unfolds, patterns that could be cells, constellations, or memories, all vibrating together in one great rhythm. For me, this painting is a meditation on continuity. There is no end, only transformation, only the flow of existence that carries us endlessly through time and space.
Why collect this work?
Roots of Light holds a bold fish form against an all-over field whose relentless repetition makes stillness appear charged rather than calm.
- The artist describes his practice as building languages from symbols and repetition. In this painting, that stated aim is realised less as a readable message than as a consistent visual grammar.
- In the photograph, thick dark contours contain the orange fish, while dots, curls and segmented lines spread to every edge. The spiral eye links the distinct figure to the circular rhythms around it.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, the work depends on opaque colour and clear-edged marks to keep hundreds of small elements distinct across its 120-centimetre square format.
- The artist frames the fish as a soul and the surrounding patterns as an unfolding universe. Encountered alongside that intention, the painting tests whether continuity belongs to an individual form or to the system that surrounds it.
About the Artist
xUEkA
xUEkA is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Porto, PT.
Nationality: Portuguese
I build languages.
