Celeste – African Angel is a series of digital portraits where the angelic figure becomes a being of weightlessness, suspended in an inner space where gravity no longer applies. These characters with immaculate wings evolve within intense monochrome backgrounds, as if floating in a mental field made of silence, light, and pure presence.
The series explores states of consciousness, introspection, and a form of silent presence described in phenomenological approaches to inner experience, such as the article Being Moved by Art: A Phenomenological and Pragmatist Dialogue (Estetika – The European Journal of Aesthetics). It also touches on the idea of silence as presence, developed in Le silence comme présence : représentations du Vide dans la peinture de paysage chinoise by Katalin Kovács.
The colored cords surrounding each figure act as psychic vectors: thoughts, fragments of identity, emotional tensions that these angels cling to in order to remain connected to the tangible world. Each color becomes a mental micro-landscape, a space of projection revealing their inner life.
This relationship to the body, to suspension, and to inner energy resonates with other series in my work, notably Leaps of Time, where mental movement becomes visual language, and Les Belles Plantes – Seasons, whose symbolic vocabulary questions identity and the vitality of the living.
Celeste – African Angel thus fits within a larger continuum: a hybrid universe where color, light, and presence become the visible forms of the invisible.
