First Contemplation (2002) stands as the foundational work of the entire Dream of a Night in Giza series. The painting originates directly from the artist’s first visionary dream, an experience that revealed, in a single moment, the symbolic universe that would later unfold across decades of work. In this sense, the piece is not merely an early work, but the generative core from which the entire series emerges.
Several key elements appear here for the first time. The presence of the twin suns introduces a dual cosmological structure, suggesting parallel realities or layered dimensions of perception. At the center, the primordial mound—resonating with the ancient Egyptian concept of the Benben—emerges as a point of origin, a symbolic axis linking creation, elevation, and revelation. Surrounding this nucleus, an enigmatic, almost alien city begins to take form, indicating a civilization that exists beyond historical time.
Through this composition, the painting establishes the essential grammar of the series: a fusion of Egyptian symbolic memory with speculative, otherworldly architecture. It is a moment of pure apparition, where vision precedes interpretation, and where the entire cosmology of the work is already present in embryonic form.