The Shadow Archive
Not all works emerge into clarity; some belong to the margins, to experiment, and to shadow. This archive gathers paintings that resist conventional placement. They are works born of rupture and inquiry: a codex that reimagines Da Vinci through abstraction, a city conjured in thirty minutes of gold and fire, a dialogue painted within the dream of Van Gogh, a body transfigured into scar, relic, and ritual. Taken together, these pieces form a record of artistic risk — gestures where influence is confronted, techniques are tested, and memory is pressed into material. The Shadow Archive is less a series than a repository: a place for paintings that explore descent, trespass, and transformation. They reveal the artist not only in resolution, but in experiment — in the very act of searching for form within the dark.
The Body Remembers
90 × 60 cm • Mixed media on canvas • 2025
The body remembers what the mind forgets. Wounds pressed into pigment, shadows traced in gold. Every texture is a memory; every scar, a script. Lace and ash, handprint and whisper — all bound into a relic that both mourns and worships. This is no portrait. It is a spell of remembrance, a ritual sealed in flesh and silence, where pain becomes relic and darkness becomes vow.
Then I Painted His Dream
90 × 60 cm • Oil on canvas • 2025
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream,” wrote Van Gogh. For years, I doubted the myth, the worship, the idea of a single man birthing a school of art. But to make peace with a ghost, sometimes you must step into his dream. This is not a tribute — it is a trespass. Where he painted what he saw, I chose to see what he dreamed. I entered his sky, sat beside his sadness, borrowed his yellow moonlight. And within that turbulence, I whispered my own color. It is a dialogue. A crossing of time. A moment where his visions and my hands touched — and left a trace.
The City that Burned in Gold
120 × 90 cm • Acrylic on canvas • 2025
A city not drawn from maps, but conjured from emotion. With palette knife and impulse, towers rise like molten memories — rust-red monoliths, sun-drenched gold, midnight blues. The skyline blazes against a storm-kissed sky, while beneath it, waters ripple with echoes of neon, smoke, and dream. This is not a place, but a sensation: of motion, ambition, and flickers of chaos stilled only by reflection. A tribute to all the cities we carry within — the ones we build, abandon, or dream of returning to.
Da Vinci: Codex of Shadows
120 × 90 cm • Acrylic • 2025
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s hidden notebooks, this work imagines a forgotten page—a study not of machines, but of myth and memory. The forms emerge through layers of darkness, like thoughts trying to surface from deep within the subconscious. A tribute to invention, to mystery, and to the shadows where genius often hides.