EPHEMERAL ESSENCE DIARIES
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Ephemeral Essence Diaries explores how little visual information is needed for a human presence to remain recognisable. These works move between figuration and abstraction: the silhouette establishes recognition, while the face resists full definition. Rather than portraying a specific person, the series examines how identity is suggested, perceived, and completed by the viewer.
In the most recent works, white space no longer functions as a neutral background, but as an active structure in which presence and absence define one another.
Presence and absence
The white is not a backdrop but an active field. The figure emerges through its dialogue with emptiness, and the image is shaped as much by what is missing as by what appears.
Memory
Many of the surfaces within these figures originate in earlier paintings. Once absorbed into the silhouette, those fragments acquire a different language. As with memory, what returns is never intact: it is reorganised and transformed in the present.
Material states
The series exists in two material states. On paper, the work feels more intimate, tactile and vulnerable. In acrylic glass, the image becomes encapsulated, suspended and preserved, acquiring a more sculptural and object-like presence.
Formats and editions
Works are available as unique works, expanded works with manual intervention, and selected limited editions depending on format and material. Larger formats are conceived exclusively in acrylic glass; paper remains the more intimate format of the series.
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