Recent Works & Material Explorations

2023 - Present

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Observing isn’t a passive activity; it shapes what is being observed.

Blue Note

Mixed Media on Jute

120 x 120 cm

Broken Black Flames

Mixed Media on Jute

120 x 120 cm

Bee on Nature's Sweet

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

The bee moves gently through nature’s sweetness, carrying the fragile poetry of life from flower to flower.

Yet with our chemistry, we carelessly combat the world that sustains them, forgetting that their humming work is also our survival.

If the hum of the bee disappears, the silence left behind will not belong to nature alone but to humanity itself.

Lost in Sea

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

Lost on Sea reflects the fragile passage between despair and survival, where countless lives drift unseen through the currents of history.

Nameless, faceless people move through borders, ruins, stations, and forgotten streets in search of something simple yet profound: the possibility of a better future.

Within their silence lives resilience, the enduring human desire for dignity, safety, and hope beyond the visible horizon.

The Whisper of a Black Mask

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

We come from a continent rich in spirit, culture, beauty, and immeasurable wealth, a place that could have become a heaven on earth.

But in the noise of greed, power, and forgetting, we stopped listening to the quiet warnings carried by the black mask.

Its whispers remain, echoing through history like a forgotten wisdom waiting to be heard again.

White Lilies on a Black Vessel

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

White Lilies on a Black Vessel unfolds as a quiet meditation on contrast and presence. The luminous fragility of the lilies rises from the depth of the dark form, as if light itself has taken root in shadow.

The black vessel becomes more than a container; it is a field of gravity, a silence above which the lilies ascend. Together, they form a delicate equilibrium: life poised against absence, clarity against obscurity. In this restrained dialogue, beauty reveals itself in balance, the subtle tension between what is seen and what remains withheld.



Physicality of things

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

Every material carries its own silent resonance. Iron feels cold, distant, and immovable, while the warmth of human skin can awaken tenderness, desire, memory, or comfort.

In the physicality of things lives an invisible language, one that speaks directly to our emotions long before words begin.

Rhythm

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

Before we open our eyes to the world, we already know rhythm, the steady heartbeat of the mother, echoing like a quiet promise of safety.

That primal cadence remains within us throughout life.
Colors, forms, and compositions carry rhythms of their own, moving through silence like invisible music, shaping emotion beyond words.

Black Tears on White Candles

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

The work reflects on the hidden consequences of existence: the sorrows behind dignity, the wounds beneath beauty, and the sacrifices often intertwined with love, compassion, and resilience. Like candles that illuminate their surroundings while slowly consuming themselves, they embody both light and vulnerability.

Set against a layered, weathered surface, the candles become silent witnesses. Their dark tears reveal that light and suffering are inseparable and that what illuminates us often emerges from what has wounded us.

Guilty Pink Pleasure

Mixed Media on Jute
30 x 30 cm

Guilty Pink Pleasure explores the curious tension between desire and restraint, indulgence and self-awareness. The vibrant field of pink radiates attraction, sensuality, and playfulness, while the darker layers and restless markings suggest a more complex emotional landscape beneath the surface.

The work reflects on the pleasures we pursue and the guilt that society, culture, or our own conscience sometimes attaches to them. It questions why joy, desire, and personal fulfillment so often require justification.

Sexual Arousal

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

Sexual arousal is woven deeply into the fabric of life itself, a powerful force through which creation continues to exist.

It moves through the body with an almost uncontrollable intensity, dissolving reason into instinct, desire, and longing.

Within this vibrant energy lives one of nature’s oldest and most essential impulses: the drive to create, connect, and continue life beyond ourselves.

Reverie

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

Reverie moves between stillness and eruption. On a pale, weathered surface, fragments of color, line, and raw texture appear like traces of thought suddenly released. The work suggests a moment of inner drifting — a place where intuition, impulse, and imagination give shape to emotion.

The Unfathomable II

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

Can finite minds truly define an infinite source? The certainty with which religious authorities claim to explain the nature of existence may reveal more about human confidence than about ultimate reality.

Perhaps humanity will move closer to enlightenment only when equality between women and men becomes a universal reality. And perhaps religion itself emerged from a deeply human need to explain the mysteries of nature before science was able to illuminate them.

Mixed Media on Jute
120 x 120 cm

The Unfathomable II

Quantum physics suggests that reality may be far stranger than our senses allow us to perceive. What we consider solid and real appears to emerge from phenomena that challenge our very understanding of existence.

Perhaps there is no God as described in sacred texts, but rather an unfathomable source of creativity, consciousness, and spirituality. Such a source may be neither male nor female and far too complex for the human mind to comprehend. Religious depictions could simply be human attempts to explain the inexplicable, shaped by the cultures and limitations of their time.

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