Chibbek Libbek, Oil on Canvas, 2024
Les Aiguilles de Zola, Gouache and gesso on canvas, 2023
Commission: Écho dans le Salon, Oil on Canvas, 2024
Painting of the Koimesis, Oil on canvas, 2023
La Porte de la Vaine Fontaine, Alcohol inks, paint, urethane, silicone on board, 2023
Dans le gouffre obscur de la fontaine élargit,
La porte se retourne en un dessin gravé.
La vaine fontaine, dans la cruche lovée,
La vaine fontaine, dans la cruche lovée,
Se naît tel une énigme, sa veine en feu git.
No Figure on Ground, Oil on Canvas hanging within a Frame, 2023
Left: Encounter (Brim) Right: Encounter (Genesis), Acrylic, oil, and latex paint on canvas, 2022
I am exploring painting as an exercise. I meditate on the exercise of walking through a gallery space. When it’s your 5th gallery of the week, the 35th painting you see today. As you pass by, you will walk fast. I will not ask you to stop. Keep walking. But what did you see as you floated by for 4 seconds?
When you walked in, you built expectations of what it was. Did that push you to walk closer or move away? Either way, once you get closer, intentionally or by following the crowd, Will it be regret or appreciation, or will you just be intrigued to stop? You don’t have to stop. There is no time. Keep walking.
Do you want to touch the painting? At this point, you won’t be that pushed to do it as you’ve felt the need to do it 10 times already last month in the 57 galleries you’ve visited and were either told not to or got shocked by a noisy, obnoxious sound alarm. If you don’t understand, you might feel like you wasted too much time reading this.
I told you before, but you don’t listen. Don’t stop. Keep walking.
Through the Looking Glass, Acrylic on Canvas, 2023
Le K 2 Narcisse, Enamel, Latex paint, and Urethane on Panel (Left) Canvas (Right), 2022
Narcissus is caught in his self-absorbing thoughts, gazing into the still and clear water and seeing his reflection. Lost in contemplation, he stares and stares as the surface remains unaware, a perfect mirror of his reflection or a deceptive force drawing him into obsession. We witness the moment of looking. Again, the water is central to this scene, a source of beauty and danger. He loses touch with reality, consumed by self-perception, as he gazes into infinity and awaits his resurrection.
Untitled (Triptych), Oil on Linen, 2022