Sonia J. | Large-Scale Contemporary Art

BLUE MINERAL PASSAGE

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yellow

orange

purple

dark blue

green

light blue

brown

black

Acrylic

Aquatint

Canvas

Chalk

Charcoal

Clay

Concrete

Embroidery

Graphite

Gold

Mixed Media

Metal

Oil Paint

Paper

Pastels

Pencil

Pigment

Resin

Tempera

Textile

Watercolor

Collage

Other

Film

Digital

Ceramic

Wire

Wood

Yarn

Stone

Porcelain

Marble

Glass

Plastic

Design

Drawing

Engraving

Etching

Linocut

Lithography

Painting

Prints

Screen Print

Text

Work on paper

Photography

3D Print

Performance

Sculpture

Lacquer on Masonite

Landscape

Portrait

Very large

Large

Medium

Small

Very Small

WHEN BLUE BECOMES A TERRITORY I

DRIFT OF MINERAL LIGHT

MINERAL SILENCE V

MINERAL SILENCE III

MINERAL SILENCE II

SEDIMENTS OF SILENCE  III

STATES OF MINERAL LIGHT I

Blue as a territory and behaviour. I work through gesso, modeling paste, and river sand collected from Serra da Estrela, portuguese mountain innerland, at the highest point of Continental Portugal at 1993m of altitude, allowing viscosity, grain, and absorbency to reshape the pigment’s, depth and tempo. Layering, scraping, and staining create a visible history—blue as sediment, atmosphere, and signal. This investigation is ultimately spatial. Blue alters how a room holds the body: it can expand perceived volume, slow attention, and change the sense of human presence— whether one feels anchored, exposed, calmed, or quietly confronted. I think of blue as a systemic context—where matter, light, distance, scale, architecture, and the viewer’s body form one continuous circuit. Ultimately, these works are designed for. real space. They reward close looking through texture and micro-contrast, while reading clearly from distance through stable fields and repeated movement.

ATMOSPHERIC BLUE SERIES

Another brick on the wall

Sonia J. | Large-Scale Contemporary Art

collection: Abstract

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BLUE MINERAL PASSAGE