Jean-Pierre Sergent explores the fertile terrain between the erotic, the mythic and the cosmic. His process is an alchemy of layered silkscreen and Indian ink on unconventional surfaces such as plexiglas, hemp paper, and print editions, through which he dissolves the boundary between body and spirit. He draws on a wide register of imagery: the ecstatic and taboo-tinted world of pornography, pre-industrial mythologies (Mayan, Egyptian, Aboriginal) and shamanic trance states. The naked adult body is not simply depicted but enveloped, and enveloping,as he speaks of “veiling/unveiling … a game between the viewer and the images.” His work uses the body and its erotic charge as a vehicle to reach toward the spiritual, the regenerative, and the collective unconscious. Colour itself becomes dense with history, pigment and layering: a blue is no longer a blue but a “conglomerate of blues.” In sum, Sergent’s art summons primal energies (eros, sacrifice, renewal) and offers painting not as representation but as a sacred space of conflict and creation.