Painting "Form from Within"

This painting is my work – created in 2023, just before the painting studio was closed. It became the last piece I painted there, carrying the essence of an ending and a transition.

This work speaks of matter that is born not from form – but from a state of being. It is about how inner experiences, emotions, and thoughts find their way into the physical world. As if form itself had no clear boundaries, but was flowing, organic – just like us: layered, changeable, alive.

It is a bodily version of manifestation. Not when an idea adapts to the world, but when the world responds to an inner impulse – to a feeling, to a vibration, to a quiet “yes” to oneself.

There is no single narrative here – only a current. A stream that pours out from within becomes form and touches the surface. Some may see an octopus, others a snail – the work leaves space for each viewer’s own reflection.

It is a reminder that we ourselves are the material through which the world is created. That our very presence is already creation. And sometimes, it is enough simply to allow for form to find its own way.

Karolina Jarmalytė, 2023