“Abstraction begins where certainty ends — at the edge of an idea, where imagination steps in to finish what the eye cannot.”
— Ralph Kerle
90 x 95 cm
Limited Edition 1 of 5
Giclée print on museum-quality archival paper, 310gsm
The Story
I titled this work The Edge of an Idea because that’s exactly where it exists — at the delicate threshold between perception and imagination. What you’re seeing here is not a landscape, yet it feels like one: perhaps a desert ridge rising beneath an endless sky, or a dreamlike horizon suspended beyond time. In reality, it is a fleeting reflection on water, transformed by the camera’s eye into something poetic and metaphysical.
I was reminded of René Magritte’s ability to present the ordinary as extraordinary — to place familiar forms in unfamiliar contexts and leave us searching for meaning. And, like Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic compositions, this image carries a stillness that defies explanation, inviting you to linger and reflect.
For me, abstraction is not about escaping reality but opening it. The Edge of an Idea is an invitation to pause at that point where the known ends and the unknown begins — a space where thought is born, and imagination takes over.
About the Paintings on Water Collection
Part of my ongoing exploration of how reflection transforms light into abstraction, Nurtured by Blue belongs to the Paintings on Water Collection — a body of work that reimagines the surface of water as nature’s own canvas, where perception, movement, and colour merge into painterly form.
“Abstraction begins where certainty ends — at the edge of an idea, where imagination steps in to finish what the eye cannot.”
— Ralph Kerle
90 x 95 cm
Limited Edition 1 of 5
Giclée print on museum-quality archival paper, 310gsm
The Story
I titled this work The Edge of an Idea because that’s exactly where it exists — at the delicate threshold between perception and imagination. What you’re seeing here is not a landscape, yet it feels like one: perhaps a desert ridge rising beneath an endless sky, or a dreamlike horizon suspended beyond time. In reality, it is a fleeting reflection on water, transformed by the camera’s eye into something poetic and metaphysical.
I was reminded of René Magritte’s ability to present the ordinary as extraordinary — to place familiar forms in unfamiliar contexts and leave us searching for meaning. And, like Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic compositions, this image carries a stillness that defies explanation, inviting you to linger and reflect.
For me, abstraction is not about escaping reality but opening it. The Edge of an Idea is an invitation to pause at that point where the known ends and the unknown begins — a space where thought is born, and imagination takes over.
About the Paintings on Water Collection
Part of my ongoing exploration of how reflection transforms light into abstraction, Nurtured by Blue belongs to the Paintings on Water Collection — a body of work that reimagines the surface of water as nature’s own canvas, where perception, movement, and colour merge into painterly form.
