This piece is all boundary, an energy perimeter, a ritual frame, a coded signal at the edge of something unknown. I was thinking about the invisible forces we build to protect ourselves: emotional, digital, psychic. The title “Force Field” suggests a shield, but also an aura, something that is both technological and mystical.
Each dot around the edge acts like a node, a pulse, or a marker. They’re evenly spaced, like a language or a lock. The emptiness in the center isn’t blank; it’s charged. To me, it holds tension, like a system in standby mode, or a silence that’s waiting to be broken. The space is active even in its stillness.
Visually, this work draws on the logic of minimalism and color field painting, but filtered through a digital sensibility, much like a graphic user interface stripped of function, leaving only the architecture of attention. It’s also a meditation on control: how we mark limits, frame content, or define what’s inside versus what’s out.
In some ways, this painting is a pause, a moment of containment before something breaks through.
8 x 10 in. | Acrylic on wood panel
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 