Big Pool, by Chris Harnan, is a teeming object — explosive, like the great bangs that give birth to universes, asserting without compromise their own physics, rules, and chaos. Each constellation of images is held together by an alchemy that knows no limits — neither in the freedom of their composition, nor in the ruptures that separate them. The vibrancy of the colors, carefully rendered on paper to highlight their essential power, coexists with stark black-and-white passages that strip away all charm, forming a vast, introspective, and merciless formal labyrinth. And perhaps it’s precisely this that wraps us in a feeling of oxygenating inspiration — that stirs a furious desire to free ourselves from all rules and invent our own. That invites us to travel to the farthest edges of the universe — and dive headfirst into the Big Pool.
