Blu ftalo (preidea)

The work occupies a pre-conceptual dimension of imagination, where the image has not yet stabilized into a narrative or symbolic form. In cognitive terms, this stage can be related to the processes of concept formation described by Rosch (1978), in which categories emerge from hybrid perceptual configurations and only later consolidate into defined semantic structures.

At the neurocognitive level, this dynamic is consistent with the activity of the Default Mode Network (Raichle et al., 2001; Buckner et al., 2008), a brain network associated with the spontaneous generation of mental simulations, mnemonic associations, and non-linear imaginative constructions. The production of the image thus appears as an emergent process, in which form remains in constant transition between free association and selective stabilization (Mednick, 1962; Beaty et al., 2016).

Within this context, the use of Phthalo Blue (PB15) is not merely chromatic but structural. This highly saturated synthetic pigment is characterized by exceptional chemical stability and a dominant presence within color mixtures. Its cool, intense, and non-naturalistic visual quality contributes to maintaining the image in a state of perceptual tension, resisting any definitive narrative or atmospheric closure. The color does not describe the image; rather, it amplifies its condition of instability, functioning as an active field rather than a decorative surface.

The work therefore presents itself as a system of image emergence, in which pictorial material and cognitive process share the same condition: a pre-prototypical stage where form is not yet fully defined, yet is already in the process of becoming.