2022 SINGLE WORK: MY PLATO'S CAVE

This work marks a turning point in the trajectory.

While Freedom’s Wings (2021) unfolds a series of figures suspended in states of becoming — freedom imagined, courage flowering, desire awakening — My Plato’s Cave marks the first work where symbolism is not only present, but structurally decisive.

Here, meaning does not reside in isolated signs. It is embedded in the composition itself. The image is organized as a spiral: not as an ornament, but as a principle. Through this movement, personal history and universal history are gathered into a single gesture, folding time inward. Past, present, and projection do not succeed one another — they coexist.

The spiral becomes a device of concentration rather than escape. Memory, intuition, and anticipation circulate within the same spatial logic, allowing experience to be read simultaneously as origin and consequence. The work does not illustrate transformation; it performs it.

In this sense, My Plato’s Cave establishes a symbolic grammar that will resonate throughout subsequent works: an atemporal space where perception is shaped not by linear narration, but by recurrence, return, and deepening presence. What is revealed is not a truth outside the image, but the structure through which meaning itself comes into view.

My Plato's Cave
2022 Single Work

M. Verónica Arís Zlatar
Oil on linen, 70x100cm
Brussels, Belgium