Shadow Work explores the tension between visibility and obscurity through a process centred on material transformation.
The work develops as a dense stratification of textures, pigments, and metallic elements that evoke geological surfaces shaped by pressure, erosion, and time. Rather than functioning as representation, the painting operates as an autonomous field where matter records its own history.
Dark surfaces absorb and destabilise perception, requiring prolonged observation before subtle variations, fractures, and luminous traces become apparent. Gold appears not as ornament but as evidence of persistence within a field of continuous change.
The resulting image exists between landscape, memory, and abstraction, proposing a space in which disappearance and emergence remain inseparable aspects of the same process.
