Trilogie 

Curator: Trilogie by Ion Nicodim appears to be a mixed media work employing watercolor techniques with possible additions of oil pastel. The panels form a soft, abstract landscape triptych using a muted color palette. Editor: Whoa, instant tranquility! I'm getting Zen garden vibes here. Each panel has these lovely ethereal shapes like a haiku. It whispers instead of shouting. Do you see that, or am I just projecting? Curator: There's a strong suggestion of landscape and organic forms across the three panels which encourages us to consider cycles of growth, decay, and continuity that speak to something ancient within us. These visual forms have resonance, like memory itself. The overall effect certainly induces a sense of calm reflection, in no small part thanks to that unified and almost sandy color field. Editor: Sandy's a perfect word. I feel like I could rub the paintings and make a wish! Is that why the artist chose three panels maybe—childhood fables, one for each wish? What if each image is atemporal: is a landscape a space where past, present, and future meet? Nicodim presents them without specific indicators: it all lives between things! Curator: Well, trilogies themselves, across cultures, can stand for completion, and a story across beginning, middle, and end. And watercolours and soft colours always hint at impermanence, changeability... It could suggest a connection to those deep myths where water represents time itself, always flowing but constantly in flux, always retaining core consistencies of surface and depth. Editor: Flux! Totally the word. It feels like looking at landforms, perhaps glimpsing moments in history. Maybe those vertical shapes act as markers or totems to ancestors we remember, but we never truly knew. So, these "places" that Nicodim paints? Do they only exist for that split-second they are watched? Or is it like the artist says: places are eternal, even the fading ones. Curator: Artworks often become vessels for this interplay between personal vision and universal symbolic weight, reminding us how symbols connect to collective narratives. It offers a glimpse beyond the immediate, sparking endless interpretations, I believe. Editor: Absolutely. Nicodim has this great power of leaving us pondering the transient nature of all things, our own ephemerality included. Nice work, Nicodim!