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Seeking Signal
Medium: Oil pastels on paper
Size: 30 x 40 cm (framed)
Year: 2026
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Presentation: Signed, varnished, and professionally framed
Description:
Seeking Signal is part of my ongoing exploration of anxiety and mental landscapes, created using oil pastels in an intuitive and layered process.
The composition unfolds within a structured grid—suggesting systems, expectations, and invisible boundaries—while organic lines and circular forms move across it like thoughts, impulses, or emotional currents. At the centre, a solitary figure reaches toward a distant sphere of light, as if searching for connection, clarity, or meaning within a fragmented inner world.
The tension between structure and fluidity reflects the experience of anxiety: a mind trying to organise itself while being continuously disrupted by overlapping thoughts and sensations. The intersecting lines act like interference—moments of confusion, noise, or emotional overload—while the soft, luminous colours hint at the persistent presence of hope.
Philosophically, the work speaks about the human need to reach beyond limitation, even when the path is unclear. It is not a resolution, but a gesture—a quiet insistence on connection, on movement, on the possibility of understanding.
This piece invites the viewer to recognise that search within themselves: the attempt to find direction in complexity, and light within uncertainty.