Separation of the Waters

Title: “2th Day. And God made the firmament and separated the waters under the firmament from the waters above the firmament. And it was so”

Type of work: Conscious Abstraction

Project: “Song of God the Creator”

“Technique of Realization – Light Painting

Year: 2025

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)

An abstract photograph that depicts the act of dividing the primordial waters is not a simple image of nature, but rather a symbolic meditation on the essence of order. What tradition calls “heaven” and “ocean” appears here as two dimensions emerging from an undefined chaos. In the act of separation, there takes place not merely the physical distinction of elements, but above all the establishment of a boundary—a boundary that becomes the very condition for the world’s existence.

This boundary is not a material barrier but a space of meaning—a line that defines the spiritual topography of reality. What is above and what is below cease to be a single unity and begin to arrange themselves into an order, a structure that allows for further existence and development. In this sense, the photograph points to the mystical foundation of the cosmos: the moment when the world is liberated from chaos through the creation of difference.

The separation of the waters is not the destruction of unity, but its transformation into a new form—differentiated, yet coherent. From this perspective, order reveals itself as a creative act, not as limitation; as a source of possibility, not as the loss of fullness. Without boundary, there is no space; without space, no being.

Thus, the photograph, operating in abstraction, does not directly depict reality but touches upon the very act of the birth of space—the moment when the “in-between” comes into being. For the viewer, this may become a symbolic reminder that every form, every shape, every relation arises from division, and yet is rooted in the mysterious unity that precedes all distinctions.