Mystic Passage — The Nocturnes. Erica Tandori, 2026.
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Mystic Passage
Oil on board
2026
Textured abstract landscape in layered blues, with a small yellow moon above and right of centre. Pale silver-blue fills the upper area. Darker, elongated ridges cross the middle and foreground, with a lighter passage near the centre-right.
Pale blue, grey and soft greenish cream spread across the upper portion. A small raised yellow moon lies right of centre within these cooler colours. Beneath it, dark grey-blue marks stretch laterally across the middle, suggesting successive ridges. Deeper cobalt and navy gather below, crossed by long raised seams and fine scraped lines. A paler blue passage runs through the centre-right. The forms remain ambiguous, allowing terrain and atmosphere to merge.
We travel through a landscape that seems older than our remembering. Ridge follows ridge beneath the moon, each distance opening into another. The passage carries an ancestral echo: lives moving across unfamiliar ground, their journeys reaching us in fragments. We follow the light, feeling time gather beneath our feet.