Bitva beze směru (A Battle Without Direction)

Description

A mixed-media technique featuring dynamic, gestural brushstrokes, layering, smudging, and textured applications of paint. In this battle, the words “forward” and “backward” ceased to make sense.

The painting captures one of the most chaotic phases of the Space War: a clash of fleets in an area where the prolonged use of hyperspace weapons has warped the very geometry of space.

The yellow, white, and red formations are the trails of ships moving between different layers of reality. Some are visible for only a fraction of a second. Others appear several times in the same spot because their different time trails pass through the battlefield simultaneously.

The enemy may attack from the right.

Or from the past.

Or from a place that will not exist until after the battle is over.

The heroes find themselves in the middle of a space where navigation systems indicate several mutually incompatible positions, and every decision creates a different version of the battlefield.

Eventually, they stop looking for a way out.

The main hero realizes that the only option is to exploit the chaos itself. He leads the others straight into the area that all systems mark as impassable.

The pursuing fleet sets off after them.

And disappears.

Not because it was destroyed.

But because, at the moment of passage, it entered a part of reality in which this battle never began.