In this new series, Lyora Pissarro and David Rodriguez bring painting and sculpture into direct dialogue, using light as the unifying medium. The works are layered reliefs that merge hand-formed materials with embedded illumination, creating objects that are at once grounded and ethereal. They operate as thresholds—forms that open onto horizons of light and color. Their layered organic reliefs recall geological strata, carved by time and movement, while their chromatic gradients evoke the eternal passage of dawn into dusk.

At the center, the crystal sphere—a primordial form—becomes both sun and moon, anchoring the work in cosmological time. The integration of LED illumination does not compete with natural light but extends it, infusing the earthy materials with a radiant inner pulse.

With a focus on the tactile, these surfaces hold the memory of touch, of hand and matter, even as they dissolve into atmosphere. These works thus offer us a paradox: they are both rigorously constructed objects and portals into immaterial experience. They embody the contemporary tension between technology and nature, between the artificial glow of LEDs and the enduring rhythms of earth and sky. Standing before them, the viewer is invited not only to look, but to dwell—to inhabit a suspended moment where light, form, and color converge into something irreducibly new.

In this new series, Lyora Pissarro and David Rodriguez bring painting and sculpture into direct dialogue, using light as the unifying medium. The works are layered reliefs that merge hand-formed materials with embedded illumination, creating objects that are at once grounded and ethereal. They operate as thresholds—forms that open onto horizons of light and color. Their layered organic reliefs recall geological strata, carved by time and movement, while their chromatic gradients evoke the eternal passage of dawn into dusk. At the center, the sphere—a primordial form—becomes both sun and moon, anchoring the work in cosmological time. The integration of LED illumination does not compete with natural light but extends it, infusing the earthy materials with a radiant inner pulse. With a focus on the tactile, these surfaces hold the memory of touch, of hand and matter, even as they dissolve into atmosphere.

These works thus offer us a paradox: they are both rigorously constructed objects and portals into immaterial experience. They embody the contemporary tension between technology and nature, between the artificial glow of LEDs and the enduring rhythms of earth and sky. Standing before them, the viewer is invited not only to look, but to dwell—to inhabit a suspended moment where light, form, and color converge into something irreducibly new.