Unique work • Private Collection (Switzerland).

Created as part of the Digital Expressionism series, Agorafobia emerged from an unexpected moment inside the artist’s studio. When asked how the color matrices behind his mosaics were constructed, the artist responded with deliberate simplicity: opening a 60 × 60 pixel canvas, selecting a one-pixel brush and drawing a spontaneous network of lines across a black background. What began as an ironic demonstration evolved into one of the most significant abstract works of the series.

Composed of 3,600 individually placed Venetian glass tesserae, the mosaic translates a spontaneous digital gesture into a permanent physical structure. Red, yellow and green trajectories intersect and expand across the surface, generating optical tension, movement and a sensation of infinite extension beyond the boundaries of the frame.

The work explores the relationship between freedom and structure within digital systems. Although the composition appears improvised, the resulting image reveals unexpected layers of order, rhythm and spatial organization. Agorafobia demonstrates how a simple action performed within a digital environment can evolve into a complex visual experience once translated into physical matter.

As with many works from the Digital Expressionism period, the piece challenges assumptions about digital image-making. Rather than reproducing an external reference, it allows the pixel itself to become the subject, transforming a fleeting mark on a screen into a handcrafted object assembled pixel by pixel.

Original work held in a private collection in Switzerland.