Fragments from the studio — not regular updates, just traces.
Thoughts, hesitations, small moments that shape the work.
Presence over noise.
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The studio notes gather a few visible fragments
from Ballogletti’s ongoing Liminal Line Series.
Each painting in this series is an oil on canvas built around a single vertical field
— the Liminal Break — holding the tension between two colour states.
Only three fragments of this larger sequence are currently shown online:
– Liminal Line Series — Fragment No. 3
– Liminal Line Series — Fragment No. 6
– Liminal Line Series — Fragment No. 7
They appear here as quiet excerpts from a much wider
body of work that mostly remains in private collections and specific spaces.
New notes occasionally trace how these vertical lines
move through different rooms, light conditions and encounters.
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On the Liminal Break
There is a quiet fascination in the moment where one colour gives way to another —
a thin rupture between states.
I call it the Liminal Break.
Not a line, not a division,
but a trembling threshold where presence begins.
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Working with darker tones again.
I begin to understand that absence has its own texture.
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I study spaces more than colours lately.
The places that breathe.
The places that do not need to be convinced.
Perhaps that is where my next fragment belongs.
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Some works arrive as a whisper,
others as a shadow.
I no longer ask which is better.
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The new canvas carries a strange balance:
weight without heaviness,
movement without noise.
I’ll leave it a few days.
Paint needs time to settle into its own truth.
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I tried to simplify a composition.
It resisted.
Perhaps simplicity is not made —
but allowed.
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Visited a space shaped by someone who knows how to handle silence.
It reminded me that art isn’t added to a room —
it must grow out of its stillness.
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Sometimes a colour refuses to move — and that hesitation becomes the beginning of the work.
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The canvas leaned against the wall all morning.
As if waiting for me to understand something first.
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Many paintings leave the studio before they are ever seen —
quiet commissions that exist only in the rooms they were created for.
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Some works don’t begin with a line —
they begin with a pause.
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I have begun a new series of small works within the Liminal Line Series — fragments in 50 × 60 cm,
painted slowly in deep blues, greys, and quiet whites.
There is no goal, no deadline, no collection in mind.
Only the desire to explore how a single vertical line, a soft transition, or a muted colour field
can create a space that listens rather than speaks.
These fragments will evolve over the coming weeks, one by one.
Not to fill rooms, but to hold them.
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I tested a new pigment today.
Not for colour —
for quietness.
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Some surfaces ask to be left untouched —
only to reveal, years later, what they were waiting for.
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I removed a colour I liked.
The painting breathed for the first time.
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There is a moment, just before the first brushstroke,
where the room decides whether it will accept the work.
I listen more than I paint.
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