Gustavo Andrade
Conticinio, 2023
Mixed Media on canvas.
44 x 75 inches
 
Conticinio takes its name from the hour of deep night when the world falls silent and the mind begins to speak on its own terms. In that stillness, the figures that live inside us surface — not through reason, but through feeling. A heart hovers untethered, too large to be contained by any body. A crowned figure presides without ruling. A jester watches without performing. Objects hang suspended, neither falling nor at rest.
 
This is not a scene that happened. It is a scene that happens — in the space between waking and sleep, where the soul processes what the day refused to.