In this portrait-oriented composition, Costa employs the fluid transparency of watercolour to define a rigid, structural landscape. By stripping away the chaotic textures of the outdoors, the artist reveals a skeletal beauty composed of intersecting planes and tonal gradients. The medium’s natural tendency to bleed is disciplined here into clean edges, creating a tension between the soft nature of the paint and the firm logic of the shapes.

The work functions as both a map and a memory of a place, where hills and valleys are translated into a language of pure abstraction. The interplay of light and shadow is handled through varying saturations of color, allowing the viewer to perceive depth through geometry rather than traditional perspective. It is a quiet, methodical exploration of how we perceive the balance of the earth.