4th Commandment

Title: “IV. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”

Type of work: Conscious Abstraction

Project: “Covenant”

Technique of Realization – Light Painting

Year: 2024

Limited Collector’s Photography, archival pigment print on photographic paper of the highest quality, meeting museum longevity standards.
Hand-applied numbering and author’s signature. A dedicated Certificate of Authenticity is attached to the work. It is available in a pool of up to a single copy of 1200 x 800mm and 2 copies 600 x 400mm and has the status of a work of art. +1 AP (an exhibition copy used for competitions and shows, which cannot be sold)

This work offers an abstract interpretation of the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, reimagined as a call to establish a rhythm of contemplation and regeneration within a world dominated by acceleration, productivity, and a constant stream of sensory input. In a contemporary context, “keeping the day holy” is reframed here as a conscious act of halting—a return to inner stillness and presence.

The use of light painting enables a visual articulation of the tension between motion and stillness, between light and shadow, between linear, work-oriented time and sacred, qualitative time. The image suggests a moment of spiritual rupture within the structure of the everyday—a point at which the individual regains access to transcendence precisely through non-action.

This interpretation of the commandment expands beyond its religious dimension to include ethical and ecological concerns. The “holiness” of the day may be understood as a deliberate refusal to participate in systems of exploitation—of the self, of others, and of the environment. The project thus reads the Sabbath as an act of resistance against the capitalist logic of perpetual growth, wherein leisure is commodified and stripped of its sacred value.

Rather than depicting a traditional notion of “holiday” or religious observance, the resulting image manifests an abstract space of breath—suspended between the light of activity and the darkness of rest.