Brown Note a, Mixed Media on Canvas, 82 × 115 cm, 2025.

Brown Note α, Mixed Media on Canvas, 125 × 97 cm, 2025. 

Brown note                     

                                                        examines how economic narratives concentrate meaning, value, and attention toward a central point. The paintings unfold through receding color fields that gradually contract inward, producing a sense of spatial pull reminiscent of a tunnel, a waveform, or a directional signal. Patterns emerge through repetition, subtle modulation, and accumulative change, guiding perception toward coherence without overt assertion.

Color operates as a cumulative system rather than an expressive choice. Each field builds on the previous one, with incremental adjustments producing tonal variation. As the composition moves inward, multiplicity resolves into subtle gradations of shade and difference becomes nuance. The visual rhythm embodies the accumulation of influence, expectation, and interpretive frameworks over time.

The series stages a perceptual model of economic belief. Brown Note reflects how promises of universal prosperity are sustained through gradual adjustment and repetition, even as concentration intensifies. Abstract systems appear coherent and inevitable, shaping perception and trust while remaining constructed and contingent.

Within Siika's broader practice, Brown Note functions as a reflective counterpoint. Where other works examine power, hierarchy, and social structures, this series emphasizes the preconditions of perception and belief. It invites sustained attention, allowing viewers to sense how coherence, expectation, and authority emerge gradually, and how seemingly inevitable patterns of social and economic life are maintained through subtle, continuous modulation.

0,57 € / cm^2 ( + tax 10 % ).