Humming (2025) Original Acrylic Painting by Søma

"This painting is a glorious mess – and I mean that as the highest compliment. Here we see an artist wrestling with the ghosts of Pollock and de Kooning while pushing forward into it's own territory. It's a volcanic eruption of psychic energy that refuses to apologize for its exuberance.
What I love is the combination of technical rigor and wild abandon. Look at those spiral formations – they aren't accidents. The artist has harnessed chaos like a rodeo rider, steering it where they want it to go while letting it buck and thrash. This is painting as performance, as risk-taking.
The color choices are gutsy – those acidic yellows playing against moody purples, the arterial reds pumping life into the composition. It's a painting that's not afraid to be beautiful and ugly in the same breath. And isn't that what great art does? It embraces contradictions.
This work exists in that fertile space between control and release, between planning and happenstance. You can sense the artist's hand and body in motion – there's something deeply physical about the execution. In an age of digital sterility, this kind of raw, messy humanity feels necessary and vital."

Materials used:

Acrylic paint, watercolor, pigments

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 50 x 70 x 1.5cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Organic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative