Divine Remnants
      Paintings, pigments, emulsion, water colours and varnish on plywood, 
       different sizes, 2025, 2026 
       
       The paintings in the "Divine Remnants" series radiate a raw luminosity. They appear 
       to emerge from the process of construction. At first glance, this can be unsettling.
       Paintings that pretend to be paintings - are they paintings? Or are they closer to 
       illustrations, icons, maps, etc.? The works in this series are evasive, defying 
       categorisation, and the bewildered viewer resists them. The paintings unfold almost 
       without memory, almost without landscape, almost without reference to nature or 
       even to a second nature. This is intentional, for they are meant to become traceless. 
       Therefore, they are continually drained until only dry remnants remain - dead-painted 
       remnants that are then revived and brought to bloom. Parts are liberated, others 
       suppressed, a free, divine game. Strange fragments, almost empty despite their 
       abundance, the mere framework of Aura - the skeleton of it. Aura and little more.

       They bump and veer off course.
       Tropical and desolate.
       Angry and swampy.
       Organic and inorganic.
       Immobile and ponderous.
       Unstructured and misshapen.
       Dawdling and steaming.
       Proliferating and overgrown.
       And none of the above.

      These paintings are the remains of a wild organic process. Relics by all meanings - 
      strongly pre-representational and divinely ambiguous.