Intention is the Last to Die

What if the future wasn't made of big events, but of unspoken intentions?

This series of works was developed to participate in the Overlens Museum of Prophecies initiative.

This project presents visual fragments of a future where intention—that invisible entity that drives creations, relationships, and destructions—takes shape and color. An imagistic reliquary of human intentions: some redemptive, others suspicious, many contradictory. Each image is an attempt to capture what remains even in absolute silence: the impulse that precedes the gesture, the motivation that asks for no audience.

The work arises from the awareness that the creator is also creation. The artist is not above history—he is within it, with all its wounds, its fears of maturing, its refusal to repeat what he inherited. The work is an inverted mirror: not to see who we are, but to glimpse who we could have been if we had listened more.

"Intention Is the Last to Die" proposes an archaeology of the invisible. The series is based on the hypothesis that the future will not be shaped by spectacular events, but by silent intentions—those that remain even when the audience disperses.

Here, the artist presents fragments of a world that hasn't yet arrived, but already vibrates on the margins of the present. A world where traumas are acknowledged, not glorified. Where human frailties are composed as raw material to imagine another way of existing.

This work doesn't seek to predict. It exposes the desire to transform one's own lens—to deprogram inherited patterns, embrace maturity as a radical gesture, and inhabit vulnerability as an aesthetic language.

The Covered Mirror,
The Breathing Veil

In the dimness of an abandoned room, a mirror sustains an impossible gesture: the fabric that covers nothing, yet insists on existing as if it had lungs.

The veil floats, between matter and memory, revealing a presence that never fully shows itself. It breathes on behalf of what has been silenced, as if the very air carried forgotten intentions.

In this reliquary of dust and light, the prophecy is not about the distant future, but about what persists when everything seems to have crumbled. The mirror no longer reflects bodies, but the absence that stares back at us.

It is the attempt of the invisible to cross the glass — a call to recognize what was never spoken, yet has always been there, suspended between inside and outside, what remains and what has already been lost.

The Covered Mirror, The Breathing Veil is both remembrance and omen: a choreography of the intangible.

A baroque mirror with a gilded frame sits in an abandoned room with peeling walls and a worn wooden floor. A white fabric floats before the mirror, reflecting itself as if it had a life of its own, amid the soft light streaming in through the window and dust particles suspended in the air.

Image developed with Freepik 's AI.

Prompt : A surrealist fine art photograph in analog aesthetic, intended for a gallery exhibition. An antique baroque mirror, partially covered with translucent organza, stands in an empty, dusty room with peeling plaster walls and old dry wooden floorboards. Reflected in the glass, a trembling, hazy and distorted human-like silhouette appears as if trying to emerge from within. Captured with a Hasselblad 500C/M camera using an 85mm lens from a low angle, the image follows the rule of thirds. Hard dramatic lighting cuts through the ambient haze, creating stark contrast between the subject and its surroundings. A soft breeze gently lifts the organza, while suspended dust particles and intense film grain add texture. The edges of the frame are subtly distorted, the mirror surface shows faint cracks, and the silhouette's reflection is warped — evoking a surreal sense of self-denial and confinement.

Seed that is not planted

The work is based on the metaphor of the seed as a universal symbol of potentiality—that which carries within itself all possibilities for the future, but which depends on an initial gesture to transform into life. However, here, the seed rests on cracked soil, suspended between desire and action, as if trapped in an eternal moment of indecision.

This suspension is not only physical, but also ethical, emotional, and political. It represents the intentions we accumulate and fail to fulfill: postponed dreams, unspoken words, gestures held back by fear, apathy, or the wait for ideal conditions that never arrive. The image asks: How many futures do we abort by not taking the risk of planting them?

The aesthetic choice of arid ground and the close framing reinforce the tension between fragility and resilience. The aridity points to a hostile context—social, environmental, or intimate—while the proximity reveals that even in barren territories there is the potential for life. It is, therefore, a reflection on the urgency of acting before time and circumstances render the soil infertile forever.

More than a representation of inertia, Seeds That Are Not Planted is an invitation to recognize that intention alone doesn't change the world. It takes the gesture—imperfect, uncertain, vulnerable—for any future to germinate.

A small brown seed with a textured shell lies vertically on the dry, cracked soil, illuminated by the golden sunlight, in contrast to the blurred background.

Image developed with Adobe Firefly AI.

Prompt: Digital painting, intimate and contemplative, cinematic aesthetic, metallic seed with oil-slick iridescence and almond shape, conveying melancholy and curiosity, cracked dry soil like arid land, abstract visible horizon with sense of vastness, low angle looking towards the horizon, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, 85mm telephoto lens, dramatic side lighting with golden hour tones, depth-focused and minimalist composition, floating dust particles, subtle glowing aura around the seed, ethereal atmosphere, suspended-in-time feeling.
Paragraph Form: A cinematic digital painting of a metallic almond-shaped seed with oil-slick iridescence, hovering above cracked dry arid soil, in front of an abstract visible horizon that evokes vastness. Shot from a low angle with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and an 85mm telephoto lens, bathed in dramatic golden-hour side lighting, using a minimalist composition with strong depth of field. Floating dust particles shimmer in the light as a subtle glowing aura surrounds the seed, creating an ethereal

The Weight of Intention

The work reveals a metallic seed suspended above a parched ground, carrying within it the mystery of what has yet to become. Its dense, polished surface reflects the world around it, like a silent mirror of the possibilities that inhabit human thought. Before the gesture manifests, before the action materializes, intention blossoms in the intimate space of decisions, firm and silent. The cracked soil below contrasts with the vitality contained within the seed, reminding us that the strength of the future depends not only on the act, but on the persistence of the intentions we hold.

Between being and becoming, the seed invites us to reflect on responsibility, freedom, and transformation: what would the world be like if our intentions remained intact, even without tangible effects? The work thus celebrates the invisible power of the not-yet-happened, showing that the promise of the future already exists within us—luminous, whole, charged with meaning and possibility. Each reflection on its surface is a reminder that the world is built as much in action as in contemplation, and that the invisible pulses with the same intensity as the visible.

A polished, metallic seed floats on dry, cracked ground at sunset, reflecting the golden horizon while tiny particles of earth remain suspended in the air.

Image developed with Freepik 's AI.

Paragraph Form: A cinematic digital painting of a metallic almond-shaped seed with oil-slick iridescence, hovering above cracked dry arid soil, in front of an abstract visible horizon that evokes vastness. Shot from a low angle with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and an 85mm telephoto lens, bathed in dramatic golden-hour side lighting, using a minimalist composition with strong depth of field. Floating dust particles shimmer in the light as a subtle glowing aura surrounds the seed, creating an ethereal atmosphere and a sense of time suspended.