Echoes: The Impact Wall

Working directly on the wall with a palette of purples, golds, whites, and pearlescent tones, I sought to create a visual field that shifts with the light, a surface that moves between solidity and transparency, intimacy and reflection. Each layer holds an “echo” of what came before: the painting I paint over, the gesture of the hand, the rhythm of the brush, the shimmer of colour as it catches the air.

The work unfolds not only as a painting but as a temporal installation, one that embodies the act of making as much as the finished image. In its creation, the wall becomes a silent witness to movement, emotion, and transformation. The palette, drawn from the language of reflection and dream, captures a kind of inner listening, a call and response between material, memory, and body.

Through this work, I wanted to explore the point where colour becomes emotional equilibrium, and emotion becomes environment. The Impact Wall holds the physicality of mark-making, but also the sensitivity of light and breath and calm, a quiet dialogue between permanence and impermanence, surface and spirit.

Echoes continues my inquiry into art as a living archive of feeling, a practice where painting is both an act of remembering, recreating, reframing and releasing.

Artist: Angelina Mirabito

Open Studio @ Romulus Folio Gallery

Location: The Gladstone, 55 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne

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