Seven by xUEkA
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 170 x 95 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $4750.00 USD
Status: available
This painting was created as a quiet ritual. I chose the number seven for its spiritual meaning, completion, balance, and inner truth. Every symbol appears exactly seven times, each repetition intentional and meditative, like counting breaths along a long path. While painting, I wasn’t focused on the external world but on listening inward. The symbols emerged as echoes of memories, questions, and emotions, repeating until they settled. Green and turquoise tones suggest healing and continuity, while the dots act as pulses of energy guiding the eye through the composition. This work speaks about alignment and trust in repetition. It reflects the idea that growth doesn’t always come from change, but from returning to the same place with deeper awareness. 7 invites the viewer to slow down, breathe, and feel the rhythm beneath the surface.
Why collect this work?
Seven sets conspicuous motifs within a crowded expanse, making its governing rule easier to sense than to verify. The painting tests the boundary between visual recognition and numerical proof.
- The artist frames the practice as an invented language balancing system and intuition. Here, the reported rule that each symbol occurs seven times gives that broader approach a specific numerical constraint, though the photograph alone cannot confirm the count.
- Visible rings, segmented curves, dotted bands and eye-shaped figures recur without forming regular rows. Their varied scale and direction interrupt easy grouping, while the near edge-to-edge distribution denies a stable centre.
- The documented acrylic on canvas supports crisp contrasts between the photographed blue-green field, dark outlines and bright accents. Its 170-by-95-cent horizontal format makes repetition operate through lateral spread as well as local clustering.
- The work is particularly useful for considering how a stated rule changes perception. Once the sevenfold structure is known, looking shifts between scanning the whole field and attempting to identify matching sets.
About the Artist
xUEkA
xUEkA is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Porto, PT.
Nationality: Portuguese
I build languages.
