Untitled 12 (The World as an Oven)

A colossal, melon-like form lies on a striped cushion as if offered up for examination, its sunlit skin punctured by tiny pots and scorched by blackened patches that read like both bruises and continents. Around it, dense green clouds churn with theatrical unease, while a quiet wisp of smoke and a single embedded tool suggest an interrupted operation—care, extraction, or harm indistinguishably entwined. The painting’s still-life staging becomes a surreal parable of cultivation and consumption: tenderness rendered procedural, nature turned specimen, and abundance haunted by the trace of violence.