Original artwork description:

“The Waiting – Composition 230” – The Angel as Vibration Between Matter and Void
In this 230th composition from the Book of Angels series, Ovidiu Kloska continues his visual exploration of an archetypal presence that transcends physicality and enters a liminal space — where the being is neither fully present nor entirely absent. The Waiting – Composition 230 becomes a suspended epiphany, an angelic presence in anticipation — not of an event, but of an inner revelation.
The figure appears as a dense vibration of light and matter, a gathering of energies on the verge of embodiment. Layers of acrylic and spray paint, applied through gestures that are both controlled and chaotic, create a tension between forms that can be recognized and others that dissolve into nothingness. The angelic head, both radiant and fractured, seems to absorb light from an invisible source — a sign that this being exists in a continuous flux of becoming, suspended between idea and form, between soul and flesh.
As in many of Kloska’s works, light here becomes an active force — not merely a visual element, but a revealing presence, transmitting to the viewer a subtle kind of energy, a fundamental vibration that seems to underlie all things in the seen and unseen universe.
This painting does not present an angel as a religious or symbolic figure in a traditional sense, but as an ontological principle — an embodiment of what the human being might become in its most refined form: a lucid, yet fragile consciousness in the face of the infinite. The Waiting is not just a title; it is a state of cosmic contemplation. It is the silence before revelation, the potential before manifestation.
The textures that overlap through transparencies and opacities create the impression that this angel has not been painted, but revealed — as if it were already there, hidden within the fabric of the world, and Kloska has brought it to the surface through artistic gesture. This approach reveals the idea that every human carries within themselves such an “angel in waiting” — a sublime version of one’s own essence, perhaps trapped beneath layers of forgetfulness, fear, or inner chaos.
Standing before this work, one is not simply viewing a painting, but entering a space of reflection where the boundaries between art and meditation dissolve. The Waiting – Composition 230 becomes a metaphysical portal into a world where time no longer flows but pulses. And within that pulse, the viewer may rediscover the echo of their own soul.

Materials used:

acrylics and spray paints on canvas varnished

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