- Mental wall N°1

Until then a nomadic and intuitive painter, >|< decided to no longer paint "paintings" or frescoes but to construct mental walls—surfaces that do not decorate, but map. This first large-scale work was born of a vital urgency: Art is not chosen; it imposes itself as survival. Papillon did not become an artist by vocation, but because all other human adventures had grown vain or inaccessible. The era suffocates; the collective unconscious shifts inexorably. There is no Plan B left.

Creating becomes the only possible bridge between personality and soul, between inner chaos and fleeting harmony. Each attempt is the imprint of a failure accepted, surpassed, and begun anew. This wall is the first survey of this endless inner geography, where the only horizon is the absolute.

Where is the passage?

The answer lies not in an order or a temple, but in the convergent multiplicity toward a single source—universality at the heart of chaos.

The large format and mixed techniques create a rich, immersive experience. The choice of fiberglass canvas lends the work a tactile, aerial, and perceptible history, reinforcing its symbolic and timeless character.

Interpretation of the Work

This first mental wall is the genesis of the entire project. It does not represent a path. It is the path.

The figure of the Mona Lisa, with her golden glasses piercing the viewer, acts as an inverted mirror: she gazes from the invisible toward us, reminding us that true orientation is not mechanical, but inner.

The wall maps the "Paths and Ways"—the four quadrants of the Compass, the Middle Way as a precarious point of balance, illusion, and even delirium as a necessary crossing. It is not about being understood, but about surviving; not about being seen, but about transcending.

In this, this foundational work lays the groundwork for all subsequent walls: an art that does not decorate space, but operates within the soul of the viewer, a cartographic survey of a mysterious and perhaps infinite territory—time. The mental wall as the only possible horizon.