A series of paintings developed continuously since 2013 – central, abstract compositions evoking geometrically structured gardens, architectural plans, ruined buildings, or tombstones. The works are executed through successive layers of primer mixed with sand, debris, and dried plant and animal remains, later covered with transparent, luminous colours to form stratified structures reminiscent of archaeological and geological formations.

 

 

By layering organic remains with intensely vivid paint, the works trace the delicate dynamics of circulating matter: what was once alive is compressed into a layer of the painting; what is alive now will disintegrate in a relatively short time and may be reused in other forms or embodiments. Thanatocentric in orientation, the paintings—once conceptually inverted—reveal an underlying erotocentric impulse: a single creative gesture that binds together two interpenetrating metaphorical registers.