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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 60 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 60 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 60 cm
2025

Anabasis

This series follows animals on a long, uncertain march through hostile terrain. They advance as if in a quiet campaign, enduring, and adapting. Over time, they seem to merge with the landscape itself becoming stone or cloud. Their journey recalls Xenophon’s Anabasis: a movement through adversity, and the persistence of life in unfamiliar ground.

ANABASIS 1 (Blue)

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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 100 cm
2025

ANABASIS 2 (Red)

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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 100 cm
2025

ANABASIS 3

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 100 cm
2025

ANABASIS 4

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 100 cm
2025

ANABASIS 5

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 100 cm
2025

LANDSCAPES 1 (Bird)

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Acrylic on canvas
60 × 40 cm
2025

LANDSCAPES 2 (Lucky Find)

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Acrylic on canvas
60 × 40 cm
2025

The Clouds Series

In this series, animals appear like monuments — serene, enduring, suspended in time. They commemorate their own long presence on Earth, long before humans arrived. The clouds around them are both stage and witness, preserving their quiet sovereignty.

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The Clouds Series, No. I

Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. II
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. III
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. IV
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. V
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. VI
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. VII
Acrylic on canvas
20 × 20 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. VII
Acrylic on canvas
20 × 20 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. VII
Acrylic on canvas
20 × 20 cm
2025

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The Clouds Series, No. VII
Acrylic on canvas
20 × 20 cm
2025

Outlines

In these works, dark contours hold the creatures together. Some run, some burrow, some carry others across unseen distances. Each outline is both boundary and trace, a way of saying: they are still here, still moving.

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
80 × 60 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
40 × 30 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
40 × 30 cm
2025

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The Outlines Series
Acrylic on canvas
40 × 30 cm
2025

THINKING THEY ARE FRIENDS

In this series, creatures that nature set against one another meet in improbable peace. Predators and prey pause in embraces that seem both fragile and eternal. Drawing on the prophetic vision where justice runs so deep that even nature unlearns violence, these works imagine a moment when the old order loosens its grip.

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 60 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
80 × 60 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
40 × 30 cm
2025

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Ink, acrylic

15 sheets of A3 paper 

120 × 150 cm

2023

 

On this boat, Noah is nowhere to be found. This rescue ship was entirely designed and built by the animals themselves. They chose to depart after discovering they were “other minds.” Those seen on the boat are largely characters from well-known fables and parables. They learn to live together aboard their ark, free of human narratives.

Triptych

Ink, acrylic

Each: 100 × 84 cm 

 

The solitary bird atop the tower observes the life cycle of grand ambitions, where designs often crumble in execution. The piece highlights the gap between those who envision greatness and those who labor to achieve it.

Triptych

Ink, acrylic

Each: 100 × 84 cm 

 

These creatures—like us—follow paths laid out by unseen engineers, their grand designs hidden from view. Drawn without regard for the individual, these plans turn lives into tools and beings into expendable parts of a vast, ruthless ambition. This work reflects on the dehumanizing structures that consume those who build them.

14-piece Livre d’Artiste
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
Each sheet: 70 × 50 cm 

2025

 

Look, No Humans (Animals’ March) is a 12-piece livre d’artiste series. Each 70 × 50 cm sheet forms part of a narrative where animals appear in a world free of human presence -- celebrating, reclaiming, and reciting a poem.

18-piece series

Monoprint on paper

Each: 46 × 31 cm

2025

 

These prints are traces of imagined creatures somewhere between animal and inkblot.

14-piece series
Monoprint, acrylic, and mixed media on paper
Each sheet: 57 × 38 cm

2025

 

A series of monoprints of fruits, imagined as repositories of life in their own right – little self-contained universes.

12-piece series.
Monoprint, acrylic, and mixed media on paper
Each sheet: 50 × 35 cm

2023

 

In these works, I study the lemon, its color and its elemental shape. Few things are as instantly evocative: a lemon hanging on a tree or resting on a table seems to remind of all things sunny, fresh, and citrusy.

12-piece series.
Monoprint, acrylic, and mixed media on paper
Each sheet: 50 × 35 cm

2023

 

Icons have long been symbols of devotion, depicting revered “others” to whom people turn for spiritual guidance or assistance. This series reimagines that tradition by elevating animals as humanity’s revered “others,” inviting us to reflect on our connection to them and their significance in our lives.

Fables draws on the idea, expressed by G.K. Chesterton, that animals in fables are not characters but symbols as constant as numbers or chess pieces. In this series, animals move through an impersonal world where pride, cunning, and strength play out their inevitable patterns. Each image becomes part of that ancient “animal alphabet” by which humanity once taught itself its simplest and strongest lessons.

8-pece series 

Monoprint, ink, acrylic

Each sheet: 57 × 39 cm 

 

In these works, ink spots and stains strive to become an alphabet. It’s a dream of a legible world. The animals return as letters we somehow always knew.

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Acrylic

70 × 50 cm 

2023

 

A goat for the devil; an apple for sin. The Christian devil is modeled as a goat—an unthreatening herbivore. Many trace the image to Pan, the horned Greek deity, whose features slipped into later demonology. Later readings of Genesis turned the apple into an emblem of the fall—two harmless things, recast as warnings.

6-piece series
Acrylic on canvas paper
70 × 50 cm
2024

 

By juxtaposing the simplicity of ancient art with the urgent and complex issue of fears about the climate crisis, these works invite viewers to reflect on the profound impact of human activity on our environment.

Acrylic on colored paper

70 × 50 cm

2022

 

What happens when we remove the superhero from the story and focus instead on his victims? Heracles might have seen the ferocious “Nemean Lion” in an ordinary lion or the “Lernaean Hydra” in a simple water snake. Humanity has evolved from seeking to dominate nature — defeating the so-called “monsters” — to striving for understanding and coexistence.

This series traces the shared origin of drawing and writing — when lines first began to speak. A mark could be an image or a sign, a trace of seeing or of saying. These works recall that moment before the split, when to draw was already to write, and every written form still carried the memory of a picture.

4-piece sequence
Acrylic on colored paper

75 × 52 cm

2022

12-piece sequence

Acrylic on colored paper

75 × 52 cm

2023

The Scheming Fox and the Masterful Rabbit is a political fable told through minimalist drawings and sharp, allegorical dialogue. The Fox, shrewd, diplomatic, forever plotting, is modelled on Niccolò Machiavelli. The Rabbit, restless, brilliant, forever inventing, is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.

 

In each chapter, the Rabbit presents a sweeping new scheme: founding an empire, modernizing propaganda, shaping the media, reinventing tourism. The Fox, convinced that this time he can turn brilliance into power and wealth, sets the plan in motion. But each idea collapses derailed by geography, by other animals, or simply by the limits of their tiny polity.

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 100 cm
2025

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Acrylic on canvas
70 × 100 cm
2025

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