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Fluorescence

Afterglow explores the residue of illumination - the moment presence arises within through the meditative vehicle of mindfulness. These works investigate the emotional and sensory landscapes that linger in the presence of light, the interplay between light and color, and the softness that remains when it begins to fade. 

Each painting in the series uses gradients, color progressions, and sculptural interventions to dissolve the boundary between the seen and the felt. Influenced by the language of digital light and sacred stillness, Afterglow occupies a liminal space between meditation, memory, technology, and touch

This series is an invitation to slow down, attune to the subtle shifts within, and re-emerge with the quiet beauty of the present moment - experiencing the echo, the shimmer and the sacred pause of human consciousness. It reflects my ongoing interest in the vertical dimension of awareness, where form becomes felt.

 

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Saudade is a body of work born from longing - for the people, places, and versions of ourselves that time has taken but memory hasn't released. Rooted in the Portuguese concept of melancholic yearning, this series examines the emotional impact of absence and the quiet ache of the in-between.

Through layered marks and nostalgic patterns, these paintings become containers for grief, beauty and the dissolution of ego. They do not seek resolution, but presence - a vertical stillness where the past no longer haunts and the future no longer beckons.

In Saudade, suffering is not the subject, but the portal. The work offers no answers, only invitations: to stay, to feel, to witness what's left when illusions dissolve. What remains is not loss, but lightness - diffused, gentle and profoundly alive.

 

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Saudade
Limonata

Fetish centers on the act of mark-making as an object of desire - feishized, repeated, and abstracted. Each painting explores how surface becomes sacred through obsessive gesture and layered construction. The work engages both digital and traditional forms of mark-making in painting, this series is an inquiry into the various modes of mark-making, creating a hybridized method of painting that fuses hand-drawn spontaneity with screen-born precision. 

By layering various materials and digitally informed brushwork, these paintings build atmospheric fields that feel both lush and elusive. Marks are made not just to communicate, but to seduce - to blur the boundary between control and impulse, memory and projection. 

 

In Fetish, process becomes ritual. The canvas is a site of longing, where texture, pattern and repetition invite the viewer to linger, look, or feel - without needing to resolve what they see.

 

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Ad Astra Per Aspera - "through difficulty, to the stars" - is a sculptural meditation on collapse, resilience and the strange beauty that emerges in the aftermath of trauma. At the heart of this series are deflated disco balls, once symbols of euphoria, celebration, and collective ecstasy, now softened, slumped and suspended in a new kind of radiance. 

These mirrored forms, gently deconstructed, challenge the impermanence of glamour and the illusion of invincibility. Each sculpture reflects fractured light in every direction - still captivating and beautiful, but altered. They embody the emotional landscape of grief and trauma, their sagging forms asking us to confront our relationship to performance, nostalgia, and the bodies we inhabit.

Ad Astra Per Aspera embraces the in-between, the moment after the fall, before the healing, living in the quiet space where we become aware of our breath and awaken to the joy of being.

 

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Ad Astra Per Aspera
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