Der Spiegel im Spiegel (The Mirror in the Mirror)

Watercolour and mixed media on paper, 2025

A work of elemental tension and renewal, Der Spiegel im Spiegel unfolds as a psychic landscape between descent and illumination. Broad, gestural fields of brown, blue, and yellow trace a vertical journey through shadow, motion, and light — the passage from matter to reflection to spirit. The brown mass anchors gravity and memory; the blue currents dissolve boundaries; the yellow core burns like an inner sun, radiant yet wounded.

Here, the act of painting becomes a rite of equilibrium — the artist learning to fall without collapse, to find clarity within motion. The mirror reflects the mirror: awareness turning upon itself, infinite and tender.
“Se avrai imparato a cadere, non cadrai.” — If you have learned to fall, you will not fall.

Cedar River Editor