Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Veronika Bondarenko

Nexus

A small oil painting on canvas, structured like a charged knot. Nexus pulls spiral, seed, current, and diagonal force into a compressed field where movement gathers, folds, and returns.

“Nexus is a hinge: everything bends toward the centre, but nothing settles there. Organized around a diagonal vessel-like form, an X-shaped structure, and a spiral core, the painting stages connection as pressure, propulsion, and suspended transformation. Forms suggest petals, ribbons, limbs, opened fruit, or praying hands without becoming fixed symbols. Warm and cool passages, veiled light, and shifting opacity create a field where relation continuously forming.”