My artistic practice is rooted in conceptual and minimalist traditions, where the universal and the personal converge through symbolism and abstraction. This particular work - a screen-printed sandwich on painted plywood - serves as a meditation on life’s fullness, its inherent messiness, and the inevitability of its impermanence.
The sandwich functions as a metaphor for the human experience. Its layers represent the multitude of adventures, mishaps, loves, and losses that we accumulate throughout our lives. The oozing contents, spilling out beyond the confines of its structure, highlight the unpredictable and uncontainable nature of existence—moments that escape our grasp or leave indelible traces.
In dialogue with historical artistic traditions, the piece engages with concepts of mortality. Its relationship to memento mori lies in its quiet reminder of life’s fleeting nature, while its connection to vanitas emerges through its tension between order and chaos, permanence and decay. This work also resonates with Romantic notions of the sublime, capturing a sense of wonder and fragility in the ordinary. Simultaneously, it embraces the abstraction and innovation often found in contemporary explorations of mortality.
The choice of medium—painted plywood—grounds the work in a material reality, lending it a raw and tactile quality. This contrasts with the clean, graphic lines of the screen print, creating a dialogue between structure and imperfection. The dimensions of the piece (2ft x 3ft) further reflect its balance: intimate enough to evoke personal reflection, yet large enough to convey broader, universal themes.
Ultimately, this work seeks to explore the fullness of life not as a perfect or coherent narrative, but as an assemblage of experiences—vivid, messy, fleeting—that we attempt to hold together. It invites viewers to contemplate their own layers, their own inevitable spillages, and the profound beauty in both the chaos and the transience of it all.
Summary:
Acrylic on plywood
Size: XXcm x XXcm
My artistic practice is rooted in conceptual and minimalist traditions, where the universal and the personal converge through symbolism and abstraction. This particular work - a screen-printed sandwich on painted plywood - serves as a meditation on life’s fullness, its inherent messiness, and the inevitability of its impermanence.
The sandwich functions as a metaphor for the human experience. Its layers represent the multitude of adventures, mishaps, loves, and losses that we accumulate throughout our lives. The oozing contents, spilling out beyond the confines of its structure, highlight the unpredictable and uncontainable nature of existence—moments that escape our grasp or leave indelible traces.
In dialogue with historical artistic traditions, the piece engages with concepts of mortality. Its relationship to memento mori lies in its quiet reminder of life’s fleeting nature, while its connection to vanitas emerges through its tension between order and chaos, permanence and decay. This work also resonates with Romantic notions of the sublime, capturing a sense of wonder and fragility in the ordinary. Simultaneously, it embraces the abstraction and innovation often found in contemporary explorations of mortality.
The choice of medium—painted plywood—grounds the work in a material reality, lending it a raw and tactile quality. This contrasts with the clean, graphic lines of the screen print, creating a dialogue between structure and imperfection. The dimensions of the piece (2ft x 3ft) further reflect its balance: intimate enough to evoke personal reflection, yet large enough to convey broader, universal themes.
Ultimately, this work seeks to explore the fullness of life not as a perfect or coherent narrative, but as an assemblage of experiences—vivid, messy, fleeting—that we attempt to hold together. It invites viewers to contemplate their own layers, their own inevitable spillages, and the profound beauty in both the chaos and the transience of it all.
Summary:
Acrylic on plywood
Size: XXcm x XXcm
