The work begins in motion
These paintings generate a field in flux. As you move, the mica-colored orbs shift: red becomes blue, blue becomes violet; structures dissolve and reform. No fixed image precedes what unfolds. Every encounter reveals a momentary configuration shaped by light, angle, and relation.
This experience invites you into a process of continuous emergence. The composition forms itself in perception, not in memory.
What appears is a resonance initiated by presence.
Meaning unfolds through structure
The central forms in my work exploit apophenia, your brain’s compulsive drive to find patterns in the chaotic material of paint. The central figures arise from pressure, rhythm, and material insistence. No image guided the hand. Form developed in response to internal relations, not from external representation.
The structure I’ve developed in the paint triggers these responses systematically. Recognition emerges from your perceptual habits. Faces, landscapes, or cosmic scenes appear as your mind organizes tension into narrative. This is pattern-detection at work, sparked by structural cues rather than pictorial intent.
Each fragment activates a cognitive response: not to confirm meaning, but to summon your interpretive reflex into awareness.
The orbs organize relation
Each orb participates in a dynamic constellation. Size, color, spacing and position create a rhythm that holds the composition in balance. These choices occur through tactile judgment and spatial feedback
Together, the orbs generate a web of alignment. Their presence amplifies the structure surrounding them. They contribute to the sense of a latent system, not by describing it, but by synchronizing with it.
Perception moves along these vectors. Coherence gains traction not through explanation, but through silent agreement among parts.
Beauty signals coherence
What you experience as beauty in these works is actually the suspicion of a hidden system, your brain rewarding you for sensing patterns and coherence that may not exist. The sense of beauty arises through a sudden perception of structure. Pattern, rhythm, and equilibrium form a momentary configuration that satisfies a deep cognitive expectation.
This sensation rewards your ability to detect order. It sharpens your awareness. Beauty becomes an alert, a flash of significance in the midst of complexity.
Rather than offering resolution, it opens the perceptual field further. Each aesthetic moment marks a turning point in the search for meaning.
Perception carves depth
The epoxy surface refracts light in ways that transform the flat plane into a layered environment. Movement and angle reshape the field. The material creates a zone of heightened attention.
This visual effect echoes the cognitive experience: orientation without destination. The illusion of depth parallels the search for significance. You explore the surface as if moving into a space, following a tension rather than a narrative.
The encounter takes place at the edge, where structure forms and unforms with your gaze.
You are the subject
These works function as mirrors, but not in any comforting sense.
They reflect back your cognitive limitations, your interpretive compulsions, your inability to rest in meaninglessness.
The “content” of each painting is not defined by what I put there, but by what you cannot help but project onto it.The paintings succeed when they make visible the invisible processes by which you construct reality from insufficient data.
The work reflects process
I begin each work without predetermined meaning. These paintings reveal your ways of seeing. They make visible how perception constructs coherence. What seems evocative or meaningful arises through your engagement with form, tension, and relation. Rather than reflecting content, the paintings expose the mechanisms of interpretation. Each projection you make becomes part of the work’s structure. Your search for sense becomes part of its logic.
The subject of the painting is not an object, but a cognitive condition brought into view.
Creation follows action
These paintings reveal how perception creates coherence. They invite you into a field where your attention, intuition and pattern-sensitivity take the lead. What seems evocative or meaningful is shaped by how you relate, not by what is depicted.
Rather than presenting content, the work opens a space in which you recognize your own way of making sense. The rhythm of form, the pull of alignment, the echo of recognition: each moment becomes a reflection of your perceptual activity.
You are not the observer from outside, you are part of the configuration.
Your engagement is not a reaction, but a contribution.
The painting unfolds through your presence.
Stephan Konings
More about the work:
The Suspicion of a Hidden System, a structural reading