Sirius
Ximena Rojas // CL + Karla Wittwer // CL
Sirius, a fixed star and the brightest visible from Earth, has since antiquity been a symbol of
intensity, orientation, and transformation. In ancient Egypt, it was known as Sopdet, and its
heliacal rising marked the beginning of the Nile’s flood season: the moment when the waters
overflowed the parched land, restoring fertility and continuity to life. This synchrony between sky
and territory made Sirius far more than a celestial body; it became a cosmic pulse inscribed
within the material rhythm of the world.
The flood did not signify destruction, but regeneration: the river exceeded its boundaries in order
to deposit the fertile black silt that would make a new harvest possible after the drought. In this
way, Sirius also embodied the idea of cycle: death and rebirth, emptiness and return.
In the work, this archetypal dimension manifests as an energy that erupts and expands matter
from within. The surface does not contain: it emits. Each plane sustains a tension that affirms
the physical presence of the work rather than dissolving it. Here, light does not operate as
reflection or passive illumination, but as an active force; a drive that passes through the support
and alters perception. Even that which appears motionless retains an internal movement, a
silent vibration that transforms matter from within.
Sirius thus emerges as a field in which body, consciousness, and memory are exposed to a
primordial vibration: that which connects origin to the continuous movement of matter and time.
The work does not represent the cosmos; it establishes a resonance with it. For even within
what appears fixed — the stars, matter, the body — an invisible movement persists: a silent
force that transforms, pulses, and endures. And yet, they move.
Sirius
Ximena Rojas // CL+ Karla Wittwer // CL
Acrylic on linen
250 x 140 cm
2026