Wlad said he was not particularly religious – growing up, he recalled some to him estranging experiences of religious rites in his home village.

“I think we are living in relative chaos. Circumstances are chaotic. I don’t think that any meaning is supposed to exist a priori in those circumstances.

But, as human beings, we have the possibility to interpret. And it is this interpretive power that gives us a space of freedom to move somewhere.

There is ‘nothing’, but we make ‘something’ out of it. Nothing is prescribed.

This doesn’t mean that we can predict or explain everything, though; parts will remain inexplicable forever – not least due to the infinite expansion of the universe. But all of this creates freedom for imagination and interpretation. There is no ultimate truth. I find this freedom beautiful.”

For Wlad’s smallest, I used the so-called pouring technique. You mix acrylic colours with a fluid and then pour them over the canvas. The result? Unpredictable. No preconceived structure. The colours expand and flow until they dry. This expansive and chaotic process offers freedom of interpretation of the forms created.

My interpretation is an eye-like pouring in infinite expansion, leaking over the edges of the canvas, symbolising the edges of the known. I see the heart or the iris, emphasising that interpretation lies in the eye of the spectator...