Ecstasy (2025), Acrylic on canvas, 102×132 cm, black frame

Description

Ecstasy (2025) is an acrylic painting by Egon Prijon that captures the intensity of peak sensation and emotional rupture. Fragmented bodies, doubled gazes, and explosive color fields convey ecstasy as a state of overload—simultaneously liberating and destabilizing.

Ecstasy (2025) erupts with angular euphoria: layered shards of color and ruptured space embody the peak moment of rapture. Eyes—scattered and doubled—gleam between disassembled planes, tracing the neurological and erotic pathways of the ecstatic. 

Ecstasy (2025), unfolds as an exploration of the psyche through its intrinsic and extrinsic layers. It charts transitions from cognitive processing into affective states—excess, calm, deviation, illusion, success, love, loss, hatred, conspiracy, resentment, willpower, and emotional shock. These states manifest visually as bursts, fractures, flows, and atmospheric tensions.

At the center emerges a human face—small, fragile, yet responsible for commanding the body, observing society, responding to the environment, interpreting science, forming relationships, and imagining the universe. This central point is the anchor of the entire composition: the eye of the psychological storm.

The artwork introduces a second paradox: the contrast between human consciousness and the vastness of cosmic structure. We recall the unimaginable size of the universe, the mass that fills it, and the powerful forces and energies binding it together. How can something as materially small as the psyche manage, interpret, or emotionally withstand such magnitude?

Opposing the universe is its inverse—the atom. Within its tiny architecture lies enormous empty space and astonishing latent power. A relatively small critical mass of subatomic particles, when destabilized, can release fission powerful enough to mirror the expansion of a supernova—creating new particles, new patterns, new life, planets, and entire galactic formations. This tension between micro and macro realities frames the deeper meaning of the work: the human mind as a small but potent center of energetic potential.

How, then, could we not imagine an echo of entanglement within us?

Ecstasy (2025) becomes a visual metaphor for psychological eruptions, energetic overloads, relational pressures, cosmic imagination, and the extraordinary ability of the human mind to navigate forces far beyond its physical size.