A color turns and shifts in gradient. Beyond a plane’s oval window, the horizon stretches endlessly. As the sun sets beneath hazy clouds, the mind wanders. These are the fleeting moments that Stefania Nazzal captures in her latest body of work. In a kind of fullness that is attained when one empties the mind and escapes, she alludes to states of consciousness that impart a sharp sensory awareness.

Where color floods the senses Nazzal points to natural phenomena that are all-encompassing. In a deeply layered artistic process, she meticulously chooses every component and shift in tone as a means of dissecting colors we see in nature and those we don’t. There’s a notion of plenitude in the way hues conjoin and shimmer.

Her seemingly contained works incorporate a rich palette of PVC strings that teeter that between solidity and fluidity. She has mastered materials, which, known for more pliable forms in friendship bracelets and keychains, are now sculptural flows that stream like thoughts.

In Ripple Effect and Soundscape, these vibrant streams evoke structures of sound or music as an architectural form. Inspired by the metallic curvilinear lines of an MGM Grand in China, color here becomes an abstract language for wavelengths and building façades.

In Stargazing and Falling Light the view is broken up and abstracted in terms of perspective. Floor-to-ceiling windows reverse the sun and it isn’t clear where the ground or horizon line is. In Far Off Land one could notice strips of deep indigo migrate across the six works. At times they are separated with hot pinks and misty lilacs. Other times, they are single threads, barely perceptible as dividers.

As dreamy texts contemplate other ways of being, sheer luminescence promises a world of our own making. It is a world that Nazzal understands.