Romania, 1999
My practice investigates what I define as inner cosmogenesis — the psychological process through which archetypal energies condense into image, form, and conscious identity. Rooted in depth psychology and mythic temporality, my work approaches painting not as representation, but as emergence: a visual manifestation of psychic becoming.
Across the series Chora, Aion, Nout, Spirit Guide, and Incubation of an Idea, I examine the formative stages of consciousness as they unfold within the interior landscape. The spiral — a recurring structural motif — functions as both cosmological and psychological symbol. It evokes primordial motion, gestation, and individuation: the continuous movement from undifferentiated potential toward structured awareness.
Rather than depicting external reality, these works map internal processes. Color operates as energetic field rather than decorative element; saturation and chromatic tension mirror psychic intensities prior to cognitive articulation. Large-scale compositions, such as Incubation of an Idea (150 x 200 cm), amplify this state of pre-formal density, suggesting the fertile chaos that precedes conceptual crystallization. The canvas becomes a site of condensation — where energy thickens into thought, and thought into symbolic architecture.
My academic background in psychology informs the theoretical framework of this practice. Drawing from C.G. Jung’s notion of individuation and the dynamics of the collective unconscious, I explore how archetypal structures surface through abstraction. The works function as fragments of a larger evolving system: a cartography of becoming in which personal myth and universal cosmology intersect.
In this sense, the series is not a collection of isolated paintings, but a continuous investigation into the architecture of emergence. Each piece operates as a stage within an ongoing process — from primordial field to differentiated self. The aim is not narrative resolution, but the articulation of transformation itself.
Through this body of work, I propose painting as a space of incubation: a psychological laboratory in which form is not imposed, but discovered. Inner cosmogenesis is therefore both subject and method — a sustained inquiry into how consciousness takes shape through image.