In astronomy, a radiant does not denote the true source of motion. Meteors do not in fact travel from a single point; only through perspective are they perceived as converging upon one location in the sky. It reveals that direction is not an inherent property of movement, but something that arises through perception itself. While movement in the heavens appears to disperse, inner experience gradually gathers toward a point that does not reveal itself as an origin, but as a center. In this sense, the radiant is not a beginning, but an act of recognition.

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In the work of Alžbeta Josefy, this principle finds expression through Polaris, the steadfast North Star — a symbol of the inner axis, the spiritual center that enables orientation within darkness. It becomes a point that does not dictate direction, but makes its discovery possible. Here, the Jungian archetype of the Self emerges not as a destination, but as a structure: a site where opposites meet without negating one another. Light and shadow no longer operate as oppositions, but as conditions of emergence. Through their mutual interpenetration, color comes into being — a space in which consciousness takes form.

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In her practice, Zuzana Badinková explores how layers of pigment generate nuance: how the same color, accumulated in strata, may affect the eye differently each time, while remaining fundamentally unchanged. Transformation thus becomes a form of deepening.

Monika Žáková investigates the ways in which material may retain memory — how it can preserve the imprint of forms and structures long since vanished. What is no longer visible nevertheless remains present.

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František Jungvirt lends glass — a material at once transparent and solid, fragile yet enduring — his unmistakable form and chromatic gradient. Colors shift gradually, much like our consciousness of self. Transition here is not a boundary, but a process.

Radiant thus names a point toward which experience is oriented, though it can never be fully located. The process of individuation does not culminate here in discovery, but in integration.
 

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Not as a return to who we once were, but as a sustained presence within whom we have become.