PAINTING SERIES · 2024
Celestial Bodies
Eight fragments of bodies, muscles and faces suspended between
physical painting and an environment outside space and time.
8 Paintings
23 × 35 cm each
Acrylic Base & Oil Paint
300 gsm Cardboard
Finding consistency through the fragmented body
Celestial Bodies began as a personal challenge to find consistency
in areas where I often struggle: emotions, physical form, order and
self-discipline.
Across eight paintings, blue muscles, faces and anatomical fragments
become a repeated visual language. Each work remains individual, but
its meaning develops through its relationship with the others.
Eight bodies, one visual system
The repetition of colour, scale and format transforms separate
anatomical studies into a single evolving body.
The body as landscape, memory and discipline
The restricted blue palette connects skin, shadow and space.
Familiar anatomical forms are cropped and enlarged until they become
ambiguous territories rather than conventional portraits.
Repetition provides the context: a muscle, a fold or a face becomes
part of a wider rhythm built through persistence and accumulated time.
A space created for the paintings
The physical works were extended into a digital environment created
specifically for the series. Inside it, conventional space and time
disappear and the paintings become suspended bodily fragments.
“There is no beginning and no end — only fragments remain.”