A Summer Evening on the Ferris Wheel

A Summer Evening on the Ferris Wheel, measuring 28.7×16.5 cm, is a horizontally formatted, high-energy composition produced using mixed technique and acrylic. The title establishes an extremely original and visual scene: the ferris wheel is both a physical experience and a powerful metaphor. Rising and falling, accelerating and slowing down, feeling fear and joy — experiencing all of them simultaneously. Moreover, this experience is set in a summer evening; in the most vibrant season of the year, at the most magical hour of the day. The work translates precisely this moment's multiple and simultaneous emotional state into a visual language. The composition begins at the bottom with a dark, intense and complex energy mass; it opens upward, takes flight and breathes. This vertical dynamic directly reflects the ferris wheel's movement: weight and chaos below, openness and freedom above. The pale white and light gray areas in the upper section evoke that evening sky, perhaps that dizzying emptiness felt at heights. The color language is extremely vibrant and high-contrast. Red emerges as a dominant energy carrier in this composition as well; it undertakes joy, excitement and the warmth of the summer evening. While dark green, purple, navy blue and black create tension with this red, yellow and orange islands symbolize the momentary flashes of light and cheer. The blue and pink on the right edge represent the tranquility that stands quietly at the edge of this intense energy — that sweet dizziness at the moment when the ferris wheel stops. Halftone dot textures assume a defining role in this work as well. This print texture, placed in the composition as black bands, makes references to the mediatic intensity of the moment, the photographic trace of memory, and popular culture images from the past. The ferris wheel is ultimately a collective memory object as well — everyone has a ferris wheel memory. The free extension of thin lines — orange, white, gray — throughout all this chaos resembles the speed lines of the ferris wheel. Traces of movement, a kinetism frozen within the moment. A Summer Evening on the Ferris Wheel opens up a large emotional space despite its small format. The work doesn't narrate that evening; it makes you feel that evening. When the viewer looks at this canvas, they relive their own ferris wheel moment for an instant — that strange mixture in 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