The Library · Omaste Witkowski
The Glowing Eye Hiding Inside a Current of Electric Blue
Ember Eye in Electric Blue is a near-abstract macro photograph: a ruffled, jewel-like center inside a lime-yellow ring, swept by a golden band.
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Start at the center, just right of middle. A bright yellow-green ring circles a ruffled, crumpled mass of reddish-brown and gold, and it looks like an eye.
Around it, translucent layers of cobalt and turquoise ripple in fine curved lines. From the left, a broad golden-orange band streams in and pulls your attention toward that glowing center.
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What Your Eye Finds, One Look at a Time
The first thing you see is the oval. Its rim glows lime and yellow, as if light is passing through it from behind, and the ridges catch white-blue highlights against deeper blue shadows.
Then you notice the center is not smooth. It is rough and coral-like, and magenta, rose and plum tones surface inside the reddish-brown. Against the glassy ripples around it, the contrast of textures is striking.
Then the lines take over. Fine concentric curves spiral around the oval and lead you inward, and a few bright looping strokes curl at the right edge. Small clusters of bubble-like dots sit at the upper right and lower left.
I'm leaving one question open on purpose. The scale and identity of this form are ambiguous. It could be something tiny or something vast, a hidden miniature world, and you get to decide what you are looking at.
What You'll See in This Piece
- A glowing, eye-shaped oval with a lime-yellow rim gives the image one unmistakable focal point.
- A ruffled reddish-brown and gold core with a crumpled, coral-like texture rewards a closer look.
- Saturated cobalt, electric blue and turquoise ripples give the piece a cool, vivid field of color.
- A broad golden-orange band sweeping in from the left adds warmth and carries your eye diagonally toward the center.
- Backlit, stained-glass brightness with icy highlights makes the edges and ridges seem to glow.
- Concentric curves and small bubble-like dots keep the surface moving long after the first glance.
Where It Belongs
This is a horizontal piece, so it suits the wide walls: above a sofa, a console, a bed or a mantel. The saturated blues give it presence, and the warm gold and orange sweep adds some heat to a cool palette.
It works best in a room that wants one confident, colorful focal point rather than a gallery of small things. The mood is vivid, energetic and a little mesmerizing.
- This is for you if you want a bold blue and gold abstract that anchors a wall by itself.
- This is for you if you are drawn to close-up, organic imagery whose scale and subject stay a mystery.
- This is for you if you love luminous, glassy color and strong contrast between warm and cool.
- This is for you if the color and glow alone are reason enough to want it.
Choose Your Print on Fine Art America
- Your print is made to order by Fine Art America, so it is produced for you once you choose.
- You choose the size, and the paper, canvas, metal or frame that suits your wall.
- Fine Art America offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Your print ships from their facility, typically within a few business days.
- The listing is Ember Eye in Electric Blue, Photograph - Macro Photography, by Omaste Witkowski.
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Questions before you choose
What am I actually looking at?
I'm not naming a specific subject here. It reads as an eye-like, organic form seen up close, but that is a visual resemblance, and part of the appeal is that the scale and identity stay open.
What sizes can I get?
You choose the size, material and finish on the Fine Art America listing, and the options shown there are the ones available for this image.
What if it doesn't look right on my wall?
Fine Art America offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can order and see it in your own light.
Picture that glowing oval across the room, with the gold sweeping in from one side and the blue rippling out on the other. It is the piece your eye lands on first and keeps returning to.
When you're ready, open the listing on Fine Art America and choose the print that fits your wall.
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