Contact

Original painting by Michele Petrelli ©

An intense and disturbing representation of the total fusion of existence, where the encounter is a structural state. The figures, immersed in a near-absolute darkness, emerge as pale silhouettes whose individual identities have been deliberately blurred by the artist. This group is locked in a cohesive embrace that transcends physicality.

The "contact" here does not manifest as an emotional gesture but as an existential necessity. Bodies overlap, intersect, and where one would expect to see a clear boundary—between the one embracing and the one being embraced—instead lies a single mass where support and need blend together. The action is not performed by distinct "selves," but is the very action of the Field configuring itself as mutual proximity.

The profound meaning lies precisely in this dissolution of the separate self: there is no intention behind the embrace, but only interdependence as the sole structural truth. The faces, lacking recognizable features or rendered sightless, suggest that this contact is beyond rational or emotional communication. It is a mute and inevitable contact that testifies that individuals are temporary ripples of a single substance, and that their destiny is to resonate together, mutually supporting each other in a universe that does not recognize separation. The darkness surrounding them is not emptiness, but the primordial environment from which this configuration of support has emerged.