Above: Surprise, Surprise No. 13 feels like a moment suspended between animation, memory, and atmosphere. The delicate drawing appears almost disembodied, as if a small living presence has emerged into the space of the image and become temporarily visible. The fine lines give the form a character-like quality, suggesting a creature, apparition, or animated figure caught between states of movement.
Horizontal bands of color create a sense of repeated time, almost like frames from a film or layers of memory stacked one upon another. The drawing appears anchored within these shifting fields while also seeming capable of floating through them. The image creates the sensation of watching something move without ever seeing the movement itself.
Below: The reverse surface transforms the drawing into a softer and more atmospheric world. The figure seems to drift within fog, mist, or a milky underwater environment, creating the feeling of another moment, another day, or another state of consciousness.
The transfer of color between surfaces becomes especially visible here. Marks made on one side migrate through the folded structure of the work, creating evidence of contact between worlds. The gold-yellow passages that appear across both sides reveal the physical memory of the folding process, where front and back are not separate images but interconnected states.
Reflection: Surprise, Surprise No. 13 explores the space between character and environment, between animation and still image, and between memory and invention. The work has the feeling of a dream fragment: a place where a small world can exist inside a larger one, where a creature can be both present and impossible to locate.
The empty areas of the composition become important as spaces of possibility. They can suggest air, water, atmosphere, or a contained environment—a small ecosystem suspended within a larger field. The image invites the viewer to imagine what surrounds the figure, what came before it, and what might happen next.
Like many dream images, the work does not resolve into a single story. It creates a condition where perception becomes imagination. A floating creature, a hidden ecosystem, a landscape, or a memory can all occupy the same space. The work’s surprise is not discovering the answer, but realizing how many possibilities were already present.
Above: Surprise, Surprise No. 13 feels like a moment suspended between animation, memory, and atmosphere. The delicate drawing appears almost disembodied, as if a small living presence has emerged into the space of the image and become temporarily visible. The fine lines give the form a character-like quality, suggesting a creature, apparition, or animated figure caught between states of movement.
Horizontal bands of color create a sense of repeated time, almost like frames from a film or layers of memory stacked one upon another. The drawing appears anchored within these shifting fields while also seeming capable of floating through them. The image creates the sensation of watching something move without ever seeing the movement itself.
Below: The reverse surface transforms the drawing into a softer and more atmospheric world. The figure seems to drift within fog, mist, or a milky underwater environment, creating the feeling of another moment, another day, or another state of consciousness.
The transfer of color between surfaces becomes especially visible here. Marks made on one side migrate through the folded structure of the work, creating evidence of contact between worlds. The gold-yellow passages that appear across both sides reveal the physical memory of the folding process, where front and back are not separate images but interconnected states.
Reflection: Surprise, Surprise No. 13 explores the space between character and environment, between animation and still image, and between memory and invention. The work has the feeling of a dream fragment: a place where a small world can exist inside a larger one, where a creature can be both present and impossible to locate.
The empty areas of the composition become important as spaces of possibility. They can suggest air, water, atmosphere, or a contained environment—a small ecosystem suspended within a larger field. The image invites the viewer to imagine what surrounds the figure, what came before it, and what might happen next.
Like many dream images, the work does not resolve into a single story. It creates a condition where perception becomes imagination. A floating creature, a hidden ecosystem, a landscape, or a memory can all occupy the same space. The work’s surprise is not discovering the answer, but realizing how many possibilities were already present.