RUINED GARDEN

Ruined Garden belongs to the Garden collection (2026), in which the body ceases to be a figure and becomes territory. The piece stems from a preliminary process of photographic deconstruction and collage of the artist's own naked body, whose anatomical forms fragment until dissolving into an inner map where memory, identity, and desire intersect.

In this 60 x 50 cm work, there is no conventional landscape or recognisable figure. Instead, organic masses accumulate, tense, and collapse: the Brain-Thickets—dense, tangled structures where deep blacks and earthy ochres carry the weight of the composition, while luminous whites and hints of moss green break through.

The work is built up in layers of acrylic that are then sanded. That sanding is essential: it removes the brushstroke, flattens the surface, and leaves it smooth, matte, and almost tactile, like paper or polished stone. The painting no longer has relief; it has skin. It is a work about collapse as a form of liberation: what breaks, is sanded down, and reworked leaves room for what comes next.