
Fifth Element
Title: Fifth Element
Size: 110x190 cm
Material: oil and tempera on canvas
Year: 2020
Description: Fifth Element captures the radiant embodiment of absolute, sparkling happiness through the figure of a woman, her arms raised triumphantly in joyous release. Her body, rendered in warm, luminous hues of red and orange, glows from within as though lit by an internal flame symbolising pure emotional energy and the essence of life itself. The background features a meticulously arranged pattern of small, circular elements, alternating in black and white. This interplay evokes a powerful sense of duality: light and shadow, joy and sorrow, the material and the spiritual. It reflects the eternal balance of opposites that frame human experience, against which the central figure rises in harmony and transcendence. Together, the glowing feminine form and the dual-toned ground suggest that happiness emerges not in spite of duality, but because of it - through the alchemy of contrasts, transformation, and inner radiance.