6th Thou shalt not kill

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 commandment “You shall not murder”, understood not merely as a prohibition of physical killing, but as an ethically intensified and morally sharpened injunction against the intentional destruction of another human being—carried out through hatred, premeditation, or even indifference. Within the visual language of Conscious Abstraction, the image does not represent a crime scene; rather, it reveals the inner state of a civilization in which violence is no longer an exception, but a concealed structural norm.

Created using the technique of light painting, the work becomes a meditation on the invisible mechanisms of aggression. Light, breaking away from harmony, manifests as sharp incisions, , and disruptive impulses that fragment the composition’s internal order.  The color palette oscillates between red (symbolizing aggression), white (representing denial or erasure), and black (the silence of victims). Murder is portrayed not only as an individual act, but as a systemic process: social exclusion, media-driven scapegoating, disinformation, and digital dehumanization.

In this context, light becomes the aggressor—seemingly beautiful and dynamic, yet carrying destruction rather than creation. The work serves as a stark reflection on the aesthetic of violence and its insidious normalization within the cultural and technological landscape of the present.