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The Awakening of the Dark Angel

After every inner liberation, a deeper challenge emerges: transformation is not complete until it becomes embodied.

What is awakened in the spiritual plane must eventually take form in the physical one.

This is a universal law of becoming — and one every human must confront.

The Awakening of the Dark Angel marks that passage.

This series explores the moment when sovereignty stops being an idea and becomes a force lived through the body. It is not symbolic. It is not contemplative.

It is incarnation.

Here, the spiritual force does not descend gently; it erupts from within, demanding expression.

This is the phase of transformation where the inner truth can no longer remain abstract — it must be lived, moved, embodied.

Each painting is born through a trance-state performance ritual.

The process begins with candles, incense, and breath — a way to soften resistance and open the threshold between the seen and the unseen.

Then the energy rises sharply, violently, unmistakably alive.

The body twists into ancient, instinctive gestures; movements snap, break, expand, as if a deeper intelligence is reclaiming space.

When the force peaks, the painting is made in seconds.

Gesture becomes incarnation.

Matter becomes testimony.

This series speaks to a universal reconciliation:

the light and the darkness,

the feminine and the masculine,

the guide and the demon — forces we are taught to separate, yet must unite within ourselves to become whole.

In this embodied state, the Dark Angel appears — not as a metaphor of rebellion, but as a symbol of every human who chooses to live their truth without apology.

A being of sovereignty, fire, clarity, and presence.

The Awakening of the Dark Angel completes the arc: from rupture, to sovereignty, to incarnation.

It represents the moment when what is found in the spiritual plane returns to the physical world — a conscious choice to live openly, powerfully, and fully as we are.

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All works are acrylic on canvas with golden leafts, measuring 100x100 centimeters.

Below some pictures of the creative ritual.

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As a pioneer of Spiritual Expressionism, I transform the creative gesture into a ritual:

a raw act that frees the identity imprisoned under roles, fears and conditioning.

Each of my works is born in a state of trance, as an energetic response to a question that obsesses me:

who we really are, beneath the mask of social identity?
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