A Summer Evening on the Ferris Wheel

A Summer Evening on the Ferris Wheel is a horizontally formatted, intensely energetic composition measuring 28.7×16.5 cm, created using mixed media and acrylic techniques. The title establishes an exceptionally original and visual scene: the Ferris wheel is both a physical experience and a powerful metaphor. Rising and falling, speeding up and slowing down, feeling fear and joy — experiencing all of it at once. Moreover, this experience is set within a summer evening; the most vibrant season of the year, the most magical hour of the day. The work translates precisely this plural and simultaneous emotional state of that moment into a visual language. The composition begins at the bottom with a dark, dense, and complex mass of energy; it opens upward, takes flight, and breathes. This vertical dynamic directly mirrors the movement of the Ferris wheel: weight and complexity below, openness and freedom above. The pale white and light grey areas in the upper section evoke that evening sky, perhaps that dizzying emptiness felt at great heights. The color language is exceptionally vivid and high in contrast. Red once again emerges as a dominant energy carrier in this composition, bearing the exuberance, excitement, and warmth of the summer evening. Dark green, purple, navy blue, and black create tension with this red, while islands of yellow and orange symbolize fleeting flashes of light and joy. The blue and pink along the right edge represent a quiet serenity lingering at the periphery of this intense energy — that pleasant dizziness of the moment when the Ferris wheel comes to a stop. Halftone dot textures play a defining role in this work as well. This print texture, embedded into the composition in black bands, makes references to the mediatic intensity of the moment, the photographic trace of memory, and popular culture imagery from the past. The Ferris wheel is, after all, an object of collective memory — everyone has a Ferris wheel memory of their own. The thin lines — orange, white, grey — stretching freely amid all this complexity evoke the speed lines of the Ferris wheel. The traces of movement, a kinetic energy frozen within the moment. A Summer Evening on the Ferris Wheel, despite its small format, opens up a vast emotional space. The work does not narrate that evening; it makes you feel that evening. As the viewer gazes at this canvas, they relive for a brief moment their own Ferris wheel memory — that strange mixture within their body, those seconds when fear and joy collide simultaneously.

• Painting Type: Mixed Media
• Year: 2021
• Style: Abstract
• Subject Matter: Abstract
• Surface: Cardboard
• Dimensions: Width: 28.7 × Height: 16.5
• Orientation: Horizontal/Landscape
• Frame: Framed
• Color Palette: Multicolor
• Technique: Brush Work, Palette Knife, Impasto, Collage
• Finish: Varnished
• Signature: Signed
• Condition: Excellent
• Authenticity: Original
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• Certificate: Certificate of Authenticity