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Artist’s Note: The artist sought to experiment with abstract painting without a fixed pattern, moving away from her usual style of drawing. When she picked up paper and oil pastels, she allowed her hand to move instinctively, without a predetermined idea of what she intended to create. From this process emerged compositions of large and small vortices, intersecting and layered with varied colours, symbolising the whirlwind of thoughts, nightmares, and dreams within the human mind. The work embraces confusion, disorder, and randomness—mirroring the absence of clear patterns in human consciousness. The winding, interlacing lines of different colours spread across the surface evoke both physical and mental journeys, suggesting paths shaped by chance rather than certainty.

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Viviana De Cecco is a writer, translator, and visual artist. She works as a content writer and book
reviewer for Tint Journal and NewMyths. Her translations of twentieth-century poetry and short
stories from Spanish, French and Italian have appeared in Azonal Translation, The Polyglot
Magazine and Atèlier d’écriture. Her fiction and poetry have also appeared in Poets’ Choice,
Aôthen Magazine, Seaside Gothic, Yuvoice.org, and others. As an artist, her visual art appeared in
Mud Season Review, Acta Victoriana, Spellbinder Magazine, MayDay Magazine. Since 2013, she
has published short stories, poems and novels of various genres.