Dominion

Dominion

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Dominion
Technique: Micron pen on paper (pointillism and hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 32 cm × 42 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2023
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"It doesn’t need to run to dominate — its mere existence is enough."

It moves forward without a sound, yet everything around it listens.
More than a feline, it is an idea in motion: the perfect union of elegance and threat.
It doesn’t need to bare its teeth — the world already bows to its presence.
Each step carries centuries of survival; each muscle marks the rhythm of an ancestral dance between hunt and balance.

Its gaze doesn’t seek — it sentences.
There is no urgency, only certainty.
While others shout to impose themselves, it remains silent — and in that silence, it reigns.
It does not dominate by force, but through the instinctive recognition it awakens.
Nature does not fear it — it respects it.
For there are beings born for battle, and others whose very existence is an unquestionable victory.

It is the edge between beauty and danger.
The frozen moment before eruption.
The echo of power that needs no proof.
That is dominion: to exist — and be undeniable.

In this portrait, power lies not only in form, but in the meticulous construction of the artistic gaze.
Each dot is a heartbeat. Each hatched line, a current of energy.
Pointillism and hatching, applied with near-ritual precision, are not used to describe — but to invoke.