A breaking wave is rendered at close range, its surface fractured into countless reflective planes. Each crest and ripple functions as a temporary mirror, dispersing light into unstable fragments.
 
The image isolates the moment of transformation — when form begins to dissolve into spray, when mass turns into particulate shimmer. Reflection is no longer singular; it multiplies.
 
The horizon disappears, replaced by a dense field of shifting surfaces. The sea becomes an optical structure rather than a landscape.
 
Light does not illuminate the water.It breaks across it.
 
In this fragmentation, coherence is suspended.
What remains is movement held at the edge of dispersal.

Original artwork by Valeria Ocean
39 ½ x 27 ½ in | 100 x 70 cm
Oil, canvas