Today’s selection for My Photograph of the Day is a new piece of experimental fine art from Cambodia titled Form and Volition #10.
Form and Volition #10 Portfolio 13
Volition means the power to choose, the act of making a decision, or the exercise of one’s own will. Volition = your ability to decide and act because you choose to, not because someone forces you.
Form is the element of art that gives things volume — the sense that they occupy space. It’s what makes a drawn apple look round, a sculpture feel solid, or an abstract shape feel weighty or expressive.
Critique
Form and Volition #10 carries the weight of a summation while resisting the tidiness of conclusion.
The yellow that blazed so commandingly through #8 and #9 has here settled into a warmer, more golden register — less electrical charge, more sustained radiance — and it shares the frame with blue, red, and green in a configuration that recalls the full chromatic arc of the series without feeling retrospective. The diagonal ribbons crossing the upper half introduce a structural clarity and almost architectural confidence, the most explicitly linear arrangement the series has produced, as though the forms have finally agreed on a direction. The right side’s layered striping — blue over salmon over red over green — is a technical tour de force, each translucent plane contributing to a richness that rewards sustained attention. The large white ovoid form at center-left provides ballast, a still point around which the composition’s considerable energy organizes itself.
As a tenth entry, this feels neither like an ending nor a pause, but like a series that has grown fully into its own language.
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Form and Volition #10
Battambang
3 March – 2026
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