ashar

oil on a wooden panel 50x50x5cm
Into the Unknown is a quiet voyage through abstraction and emotion. The canvas is awash in soft pastel tones—blue, beige, and light grey—that dissolve into one another like mist over a vast, open landscape. A pale blue rectangle near the upper right suggests a window or portal, a subtle invitation to look beyond the visible.
Below, seven small vertical red marks stand in a row, each casting a faint reflection, as if resting on a surface of water or glass. These marks feel like silent sentinels or distant figures, evoking presence without identity. On the left edge, three faint circular forms drift like echoes or memories, adding texture and depth to the otherwise serene field.
Minimalist yet rich in suggestion, Into the Unknown captures the tension between stillness and movement, clarity and mystery. It’s a visual meditation on stepping beyond the familiar—where meaning is felt more than seen, and the unknown is not feared but embraced.

I use oil pastels, oil sticks, markers, scrapers, charcoal, pigment sticks, newspaper, and graphite, as well as gold and silver leaf, to make marks that fit the moment. UV protected, signed on the back. The work is on a plywood panel and is ready to hang. No further framing is needed.

There’s a place I go, inside myself,
Where nobody else can be,
And none of my friends can tell it’s there –
Nobody knows but me.
It’s hard to explain the way it feels,
Or even where I go.
It isn’t a place in time or space,
But once I’m there, I know.
It’s tiny, it’s shiny, it can’t be seen,
But it’s big as the sky at night …
I try to explain, and it hurts my brain,
But once I’m there, it’s right.
There’s a place I know inside myself,
And it’s neither big nor small,
And whenever I go, it feels as though
I never left at all. by Dennis Lee

Ref: 23/05

Location: secret