Nun — Primordial Waters explores one of the most fundamental concepts of ancient Egyptian cosmology: the state of existence before creation. According to this worldview, before light, before structure, and before the emergence of the gods, there was only Nun — an infinite, dark, and undifferentiated mass of waters in perpetual motion.
This condition was not empty, but saturated with potential. Everything that would later exist was already contained within it, yet without form, hierarchy, or distinction. It was a state of pure latency — a universe suspended in its own possibility.
Through the use of expanded polyurethane on canvas, the artist translates this metaphysical condition into a physical surface. The material expands, bubbles, and solidifies, generating a three-dimensional topology that evokes a field of unstable emergence. Each formation suggests matter in the act of becoming, as if the surface itself were caught in the threshold between chaos and structure.
Rather than depicting water, the work operates as a direct manifestation of primordial instability. The texture becomes language: a system of volumes that articulate tension, pressure, and the imminent birth of form. In this sense, the piece does not illustrate mythology — it reenacts it through matter.
Within the broader framework of Dream of a Night in Giza, this work can be understood as a return to origin — not as narrative, but as condition. It situates the viewer at the exact point where existence has not yet separated from its own potential.