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Work in progress

Matter Remembers The Light It Reflects

Body of abstract work that has emerged from an unconventional material inquiry, and which has gradually evolved into an independent visual language.

The works originated during the renovation of my studio, when I began incorporating construction materials—plaster, adhesives, and foundational layers—into the language of painting. This convergence did not arise from any learned method, but through direct experimentation with matter itself, allowing the work to develop through process rather than prescription.

The textures that emerged are not merely surfaces, but active fields in which color is absorbed, eroded, and at times ruptures through. What unfolds is a form of painting in which material and color operate in tandem—not as application upon a support, but as an ongoing process of construction and disintegration.

Within this spatial field, the image of reflection repeatedly surfaces—an echo of sky mirrored in water. Yet this image never stabilizes into representation; it appears instead as shifting moments of recognition and loss, where the boundary between source and reflection becomes increasingly porous.

 

The work engages with questions

 movement generated from within matter itself, 
composition as an act of dismantling and reassembly, 
 color as a force that articulates depth, light, and instability.

The works in their present state

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