NOTES from the Realm of Time

Note 4: "Metamorphosis"

In the realms of time, moments do not disappear — they transform.

Transformation rarely announces itself. It begins quietly—within colour, within movement, within the small shifts that slowly reshape the world around us.

In "Metamorphosis", the painting unfolds like a landscape of change. Vivid forms swirl and collide across fields of luminous colour: reds that curl like emerging flames, blues that spiral like waves in motion, and golden light that seems to push outward from within the canvas itself. Nothing remains fixed.

Shapes appear to be in the very act of becoming something else—forms dissolving, reforming, and travelling through the currents of time. What begins as one gesture becomes another, as if the painting were capturing the brief moment when matter itself hesitates between states.

Metamorphosis is the quiet law beneath everything we see. Clouds become rain. Seeds become forests.Moments become memory.

In this painting, colour becomes movement, and movement becomes transformation. A reminder that the world is never still—it is always, endlessly, becoming.

And somewhere, quietly, time continues to write...

"Metamorphosis" - painting from In the Realms of Time series

oil on canvas glued on panel, 36 inches x36 inches

 in private collection

Artist: Eugen-Florin Zamfirescu