5.27 PM

This piece was born at the end of summer, when the evenings are still long and blue, and darkness takes its time to arrive. The atmosphere shifts, becoming sharper, and you know that soon the days will start to shrink.

I love that fleeting moment when the sun has just dipped below the horizon, and everything is bathed in blue light. It’s liminal, elusive—it lasts no more than fifteen minutes. I often find myself lost in it, watching as the streetlights flicker on and the clouds dissolve into the sky. You can feel time flowing in that moment, sense the day slipping away. It’s a brief window of transition, one we experience every evening. And I love that shade of blue—the way it flickers, deepens, and wraps around all other colors like a blanket.

From this contemplation came 5.27 PM. I wanted it to be entirely blue, with only small bursts of yellow and pink—just hints—because the blue was the heart of it. Every shade, every nuance of blue layered over one another. I decided to add threads cutting through the composition, weaving, intersecting, breaking the geometry of the painting. Like strands of thought, or telephone wires dividing the sky.

There’s something about that blue that feels like a threshold—between day and night, presence and memory. It holds both stillness and movement, a quiet hum of transition. That’s why I wanted the threads to cut through it, like the last traces of daylight stretching before vanishing, like thoughts unraveling in the evening air. 5.27 PM is not just about color; it’s about that brief pause, that moment of suspension when everything is about to change.

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