Deneb Algedi

Lost & Found Origins

Cecilia Czornogas // AR-ES

This series of small watercolor paintings explores liminality as a space where structure and fluidity converge. Drawing from Deneb Algedi, the star located in the tail of Capricorn, symbolized by the goat-fish; the work engages with a hybrid condition: the coexistence of solidity and dissolution, ascent and submersion.


The paintings are conceived as fragments of memory: traces, sigils, or visual documents from unknown or lost civilizations. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, they operate as residual languages, marks that suggest systems of meaning without fully revealing them. Each piece functions as both remnant and threshold, holding the tension between what is remembered and what remains inaccessible.


Watercolor becomes central to this process. The behavior of water on paper produces stains, dispersions, and edges that resemble imprints or sedimented gestures. These marks act as inscriptions, where the medium itself generates a form of memory. Water does not represent, it leaves a trace.


Underlying the work is a notion of law: not as imposed order, but as a principle carried through memory. A reminder not to forget origin. Like the Capricorn goat that climbs toward structure yet emerges from the sea; form becomes a way of holding that law, an echo of where we come from, inscribed in matter, still unfolding.


Watercolour on paper, 2026


Cascada de Fuego - 21,0 x 29,7 cm


liquid liquid - 21,0 x 29,7 cm 

Fantasía - 14,8 x 21,0 cm 

Heaven´s door - 14,8 x 21,0 cm 

godlike ruler (clown) - 8 x 10,5 cm 

Sigilo - 8 x1 0,5 cm