The Cloud (from the Series "Entropy")

by Argentinian artist Ernesto Fernández Alle

Oil on Canvas. Unframed 16"x12" / 40cm x 30cm

In this companion work from Ernesto Fernández Alle’s Entropy series, a solitary figure glows with quiet vulnerability against a dark, turbulent backdrop. His downward gaze suggests introspection or emotional weight, while above him a pale, cloudlike presence—like a memory half-remembered or a thought that refuses to fully crystallize—floats suspended between worlds. The two forms feel connected yet distant, as if memory were silently observing the self. The painting captures a moment of psychological unraveling, where inner landscapes blur and meaning dissolves into atmosphere.

Fernández Alle invites viewers into an open narrative—one that resists closure and instead encourages personal interpretation. What is the relationship between the young figure and the hovering entity? Is it a memory materializing, a guardian, or a fragment of the self witnessing its own descent into contemplation? As in all works of the Entropy series, the painting offers more questions than answers, urging each viewer to confront their own interior drift and the haunting, beautiful disarray of being.