Almost 3000°C

Series: “Inner Geometry”
Oil on canvas
Size: 100*100cm
Year: 2025

About this artwork

There are moments when everything inside begins to rise toward a critical point — toward the very temperature at which explosive materials ignite. Almost 3000°C is the threshold where a detonation begins.

And in this last second — in the fraction of a moment before the break — a person still has a choice.

We cannot control everything around us: circumstances shift, people behave unpredictably, situations fall apart. But what happens within us remains ours. Our territory. Our decisions. Our direction.

And when internal energy reaches the brink of an explosion, a person chooses:
to release it outward — into conflict, destruction, rupture, or to transform and redirect it — into creation, into form, into the birth of something new and meaningful, something that can change the future for the better.

This work is about the instant of choice. The bifurcation point — the moment where energy can become a blast, or become a beginning.

The central circle is the boundary of maximum tension. The last second when everything could break — or, by an inner decision, turn into clarity, growth, and movement forward.

One eye is observing, looking upward — searching for the right direction, the point where answers come from. The other is turned inward — reminding that even at such temperature, there is still space for a decision.

“Almost 3000°C” is not about anger. It is about the moment when the next step is chosen: to destroy — or to create.

Sometimes the most powerful things in our lives are born exactly at that moment — when everything could collapse, but from the same temperature something new begins.