Original artwork description:

Fragments from the Mind’s Horizon
60 x 60 cm
From the series “Beyond the Inside”
by Ovidiu Kloska
In “Fragments from the Mind’s Horizon”, the canvas becomes not a surface, but a metaphysical membrane—thin, translucent, permeable—between the internal and the eternal. This painting doesn’t offer a view; it offers a crossing. It invites the observer to stand at the furthest boundary of consciousness, where language dissolves and vision becomes a ritual of remembrance.
This is not landscape. It is mindscape. A contemplative echo-space in which the residue of forgotten visions floats, suspended in psychic atmosphere. The hues swirl like ancient weather, as if carrying the sediment of dreams never dreamt, of thoughts never fully formed. We are placed not in front of the image, but within it, as if we ourselves were fragments drifting on the horizon of another’s interior.
Kloska’s work has always traced the unseen topographies of being—the sacred within the abstract, the mystical within the gesture—but here, the investigation is more silent, more primal. The brushwork is not merely expressive; it is excavatory. Each stroke acts like a tool of remembrance, unearthing layers of sedimented experience buried deep beneath the waking world. We are presented with no figures, no definitive iconography, yet we are haunted by presence—diffuse, spectral, luminous.
This is the threshold where thought begins to shimmer and break apart—where contemplation becomes an aesthetic act. In the tradition of meditative abstraction, this painting does not dictate meaning; rather, it generates conditions for meaning to emerge. It respects the viewer’s silence, trusting the intelligence of intuition over the mechanics of explanation. It evokes a kind of visual phenomenology—a seeing that is also a feeling, and a feeling that opens into reverent stillness.
The painting is a fragment, but not broken—a shard from the crystalline structure of inner perception. And its horizon is not of space, but of mind—that impossible edge where the self ends and the ineffable begins. It is there, precisely in that liminal zone, that the painting unfolds—slowly, softly—like a mantra held in color and motion.
In this way, Kloska aligns with a lineage of spiritual abstractionists—Zao Wou-Ki, Rothko, Kandinsky—yet his voice remains singular. Less concerned with transcendence as escape, he points us instead toward immanence as mystery: the holy that hums beneath the surface of the everyday, the divine murmuring from within.
Ultimately, “Fragments from the Mind’s Horizon” is not a painting to be analyzed—it is a terrain to be entered, a silence to be shared. It holds space for slowness in a world of speed, for wonder in a culture of certainty. And in doing so, it becomes what all true contemplative art aspires to be:
A mirror that does not reflect,
but remembers.

Materials used:

acrylics and sprays on canvas varnished framed

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