Timelessness in Painting: How I Stop Time on the Canvas
2 January 2026
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In the works of the “Holographic World” series, one of the greatest challenges and fascinations for me is achieving timelessness on the canvas—not in the simple sense of capturing a single moment, but in creating a space where time does not exist at all: true timelessness. My floating forms in the void have no directional shadows, no hints of morning or evening, no visible movement suggesting a beginning or end; everything exists in eternal suspension, as if frozen precisely at the instant the universe was created. Through multiple layers of oil paint and interference pigments, the colors are not fixed but shift depending on the moment of the viewer’s gaze—each time someone steps closer or changes their angle, a new layer of color and depth emerges, and time seems to flow again, but only in the viewer’s mind. This is exactly what I strive for: the canvas should not be an image from the past, but a space where time loses all meaning; a place where the viewer feels simultaneously present in all moments. When someone stands before one of these paintings and says, “It feels like time doesn’t exist,” I know I have succeeded in capturing a fragment of that infinity on the canvas.