NOVA

Mixed media, acrylic, epoxy resin, gold glitter on wood-framed canvas A star does not die. It explodes into something greater. In *Nova*, the composition unfolds in a spiral, its concentric rings of blood-red and gold swirling toward a dark center. We are drawn in. There is no resisting this organic geometry, this movement that mimics that of galaxies, cyclones, and seashells—everything nature does when it closes in on its own mystery. The red rings are cracked, textured, alive—like lava that has cooled on the surface but is still molten beneath. The gold seeps into every fissure, revealing a precious, secret, and multidimensional internal structure. This is not destruction. It is alchemy. At the heart of the spiral, a dark point explodes—a nova, a supernova—birth through implosion. Around it, black, organic forms float like debris from stellar matter, fragments of a world that has just fallen apart only to reassemble itself anew. The black background sprinkled with gold reminds us that even the interstellar void is never truly empty; it is full of what has been and what will be. “Nova” is a work about radical transformation. It is about the courage it takes to let everything explode and to trust in what is reborn from the center.