Nature (The Heart of Nature)

Suspended in a verdant field of flattened, ornamental foliage, the stag’s skull with its branching antlers reads like a relic—at once trophy and totem—while the adjacent anatomical forms (a raw, exposed heart and viscera-like volumes) turn the body into a landscape of memory. The palette moves between jungle greens and earthen reds, punctuated by a cool, mountainous blue, creating a pulse of temperature that oscillates between shelter and alarm, life’s lushness and its inevitable undoing. Compositional overlaps and clean-edged silhouettes collapse depth into a symbolic stage, where nature is not idyllic but consciously assembled—an ecology of desire, mortality, and renewal. The work’s quiet tension lies in this contradiction: the forest as sanctuary, and the body as evidence.