Untitled [from series Noema]

Pawel Dudko | pdudko.com

Noema explores perception through phenomena that emerge between sky, atmosphere, and the observing mind. Drawing from the Greek noēma - "that which is thought" - the series refers not to physical events themselves, but to how they are lived, remembered, and internally transformed. The works engage with meteorological and para-meteorological imagery: aurora-like lights, fading sunsets, mist-diffused city glows, and elusive, almost legendary phenomena such as ignis fatuus. These elements function as agents of drawing, shaping luminous trajectories and temporal patterns that remain in constant flux. Rather than depicting weather as a literal subject, Noema approaches it as an experiential layer-light moving through air, visibility dissolving, form emerging and disappearing. The images operate as traces of atmospheric encounters, where natural and urban skies overlap, and perception becomes inseparable from memory and sensation. Positioned between city and sky, structure and atmosphere, the series reflects on weather as a poetic force: a continuously rewriting field that inscribes itself not only in space, but in consciousness.