In Nicolina Morra’s Sighting No. 1 & 2, ambiguity is the central concern of the work. The paintings present indistinct aerial phenomena that resist fixed interpretation: what appears in the sky might be read as a shooting star, a UFO, a missile, or another unidentified object entirely. This deliberate uncertainty places the viewer in a state of interpretive suspension, where meaning is constantly suggested but never confirmed.

A key device in these works is the use of red circles, functioning as so-called “operational images.” Rather than clarifying what is being seen, these marks mimic evidentiary annotation, as if pointing to something significant or classified. Yet the images ultimately withhold any definitive content or “important” event. In doing so, they produce a paradoxical effect: the viewer is confronted with visual cues that imply proof or presence, while simultaneously being left with absence, an unresolved tension that generates expectation, doubt, and a lingering belief that something is there, just out of reach.