Music for the Eyes 2025#7

This piece is built from a vocabulary of circles, arcs, and dense pattern-fields, but it refuses the calm symmetry we usually associate with concentric forms. The composition feels “orbital”: large ringed discs overlap like shifting planets, yet every surface is threaded with its own internal logic so the eye is constantly pulled between the macro-structure (the big circular sweeps) and the micro-texture (the stitch-like marks and tight lattices).

The central zone is especially telling: a thick nest of dark concentric rings compresses the space like a record groove or an engine gasket, framing a pink “core” with a finer, textile-like stipple. That darker ring cluster behaves like a gravity well, keeping the composition from flying apart while simultaneously amplifying the sense of rotation. Around it, the angled stripes and woven motifs produce moiré-like flicker, so depth feels unstable: some bands advance as if embossed, while others flatten into graphic wallpaper.

What ultimately makes the piece compelling is its tension between precision and exuberance. The patterns suggest weaving, quilting, or beadwork—hand-based systems translated into near-industrial repetition—yet the overlaps and colour collisions keep it human, slightly unruly. The result is a visual music: not a single melody, but polyrhythm—layers syncing, slipping, and re-syncing as your gaze loops through the rings.

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Exhibitions

Feb 7, 2026 - Mar 7, 2026​ Now
Intent Gallery, Boulevard Heights Building – Unit BH-G-R10, Tower 2 – Downtown Dubai, UAE
Feb 7, 2026 - Mar 7, 2026​ Now

About the art

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Colour is used less as mood than as velocity. Hot pinks and reds dominate, but they’re repeatedly punctured by acidic greens, bright yellows, and small, cool blue circles that act like visual rests in an otherwise high-tempo score. Somsak also leans on contrast in ‘pattern density’: broad, clean arcs give way to near-noise fields of interlaced diagonals, creating a pulse of compression and release.

Despite its visual intensity, the composition feels carefully balanced, with repetition and variation working together to transform complexity into a dynamic, almost musical harmony.

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