Night Bloom opens the series in the dark. It carries the first stage of AFTERGLOW: an inner night in which not everything is visible yet, but something has already started to move.

Like certain flowers that only open at night, this work is about blooming before the light has fully returned. The deep blues and red-purple layers hold silence, tension and an underlying pulse.

This is not the end of something, but the beginning of a new form growing beneath the surface — the first sign of an afterglow.