Untitled 6 (The Archaeology of Memory)

This collage-like abstraction stages a quiet archaeology of memory: fragmented blocks of ochre, soot-black, and weathered cream orbit a central, ember-red, totemic form that reads like a figure, a flame, or a relic suspended between presence and absence. The composition relies on the tension between porous textures and clean negative space, allowing each “shard” to breathe while still implying a coded syntax—marks that resemble inscriptions, maps, or rubbed imprints from vanished surfaces. Warm, earthen pigments lend the work a ceremonial gravity, as if the artist is assembling evidence of lived time into a single, provisional altar. What emerges is a meditation on how meaning is built from remnants—how identity, history, and place are continually re-edited through fragments we choose to keep.