10 Seconds to A Yellow Artwork
The 10 seconds nature offers me to make a digital work and how nature reveals the work
Every artwork begins with an intention, but I’m reminded again and again that its life begins when it enters the eyes — and imagination — of others.
Over the past month, I invited my Art Journal subscribers into something I’ve never done before: a genuine co-creation. A new artwork of mine, previously untitled, was placed before you all with a simple question:
What should this work be called
I photographed this reflection yesterday.
There was no long contemplation, no weeks of uncertainty — just that electric moment when something catches your eye, and you instinctively know: there’s something here.
There’s a very particular kind of moment when I know I’m no longer just out on the water – I’m on the edge of an artwork.
Every artwork starts with an intention, but it really comes alive when someone else looks at it. For months this new piece has sat in my “possibilities” folder – a dark, mysterious field with a single golden sphere glowing at its centre. I knew there was something powerful there, but it still felt unfinished without a title that came from beyond my own point of view.
That's why I launched "The Untitled Artwork Experiment." The goal was simple yet profound:
“Brightness isn’t naïve—sometimes it’s what we reach for after the unthinkable…” – Ralph Kerle