Abstraction is not the absence of meaning — it is the refinement of it.
To abstract is to remove everything unnecessary until only essence remains. It is not chaos, but clarity — the point where emotion becomes form, and form dissolves into feeling.
When I create, I’m not trying to depict the world as it looks. I’m trying to reveal the world as it feels. A sunset, a memory, a longing, or a single fleeting heartbeat — each one translates into color, movement, and space. The language is visual, but the conversation is spiritual.
Abstraction is the soul speaking without words. It defies realism not because it rejects truth, but because it seeks a deeper one — a truth that can’t be photographed or described. The curve of a line may hold sorrow; a burst of gold may whisper redemption. Every brushstroke, every fracture of light, becomes a sentence in a language only the heart fully understands.
Collectors often ask what a piece “represents.” My answer is always the same: it represents you. Whatever it awakens, that is its meaning. That’s the beauty of abstraction — it’s alive. It mirrors consciousness itself: always shifting, always reflecting the inner landscape of whoever dares to look closely.
In abstraction, there are no mistakes, no limits, and no conclusions. There is only exploration — and the quiet realization that everything we truly feel is beyond the reach of definition.
— Alexander Ziwahatan
Founder & Artist, Ziwahatan Fine Art Gallery
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