In Flickering, I was interested in creating a relationship between the viewer and the painting. Many things only begin to reveal themselves when we look at them closely or from a different angle. The more attentively we look, the more we begin to understand.
1. The Moon
Composite image based on Clementine data, 1994
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
2. Colorful Moon
Galileo false-color composite, 1992
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech, 1992
3. Peplos Kore, ca. 530 BCE.
Photo: Marsyas, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5.
4. Peplos Kore (AI-assisted polychromy reconstruction)
5. Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978), 103.
6. Staff Sgt. Kristen Pittman, “Green phosphor night vision goggles,” U.S. Air Force Reserve Command,
7. Thomas Ruff Night 6 III, 1992
Städel Museum, Online Collection
8. Oleg Komarov, Flickering, Exhibition view, MUZE’UM Light & Landscape, Roeselary, BE, 2025
9. Jacques Lacan, diagram of geometral optics, in The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
10. Moon – North Polar Mosaic, Color, 1998
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
11. Oleg Komarov, Flickering, Exhibition view, MUZE’UM Light & Landscape, Roeselary, BE, 2025
12. Oleg Komarov, from the series Flickering, 2023-25
13. William Henry Fox Talbot, Camera Obscura, 1840