acrylic
The Foundation of My Practice
Where It All Began: The Acrylic Canvas
During my gymnasium years—where I had a focus on visual arts—I was introduced to a wide spectrum of mediums. Yet, it was acrylic that truly felt like an extension of my hand. I suited my artistic expression due to its rapid drying time. I could paint reactively, building complex layers in a single sitting. Especially the effect a top layer had on the underlying layer was fascinating to me. Later I would expand on this layer approach in my digital paintings.
My very first series of mature works were born from this medium—shattered, textured canvases that represent the raw energy of my early artistic voice.
'Jester in Shambles' (2025)
My very first acrylic canvas to bear this style was titled "The Burden"—a name that now feels prophetic in retrospect. The piece took over six months to complete, though I rarely worked on it consecutively. Instead, I let it sit for months at a time, allowing the piece to sink in, while I wrestled with a heavy depression that had settled over my life.
inner fragments
It began as a realistic figurative painting, clean and controlled. But as my own worldview began to fracture, so too did the canvas. In a moment of raw frustration, I overprinted the original figure with hundreds of tiny white brushstrokes, obscuring what I had so carefully built. When I later stepped back, I noticed the strange, fragmented patterns these strokes had formed—chaos that somehow held a new kind of order. This accidental discovery ignited something in me. I began dividing the brushwork into deliberate geometric fields, separating them with sharp black ink lines to emphasize the cracks. Yet I was careful to preserve the original figure beneath, allowing it to peer through the fractures like a memory refusing to fade. "The Burden" was completed, and with it, my "Shattered Glass" style was born.
The Birth of
Shattered Glass"
'The Burden' (2025)
Relic Foundations
This painting explores the fragmented inheritance of classical ideals. It is a vision of dehumanization and forced cohesion, where marble limbs are merged into a single, looming aggregate form, suggesting a species unified not by choice, but by the weight of collective history. A stark, diagonal fissure cuts across the composition, creating a visceral sense of slippage.
The work also speaks to the personal past. To know your history is to be shaped by it, but to be defined by it is to be trapped, limiting present potential. Yet, the painting posits that a complete reckoning is an illusion. Within the fractured marble, in shadowed crevices and obscured joins, lie hidden facets and unexamined secrets. The past, like these classical icons, is a broken relic we assemble—always incomplete, always holding something just out of view.
BorEal de cadence
Sometimes it's best not to say too much about the meaning behind a painting, as it can infer in the free interpretation of the observer. Also, to a large part I myself cannot say what the meaning is, as my artistic process incorporates my subconsciousness immensely, and I still discover hidden meanings myself every time I look at it again. There are, however, many conscious decisions of trying to hide figurations in the abstracted shards.
So feel free to freely interpret this piece by yourself and try to discover something in the fragments.
Saga power
This piece is inspired by the Manga series 'Berserk'. It's an epic tale set in a dark fantasy world. What I learned from it is that true beauty can be truly horrifying.
The piece was distributed to over 20,000 people. I started my artistic journey on the Solana blockchain, and I will never forget the love and support I received from so many of my early art collectors. 'SAGA POWER' is a tribute that extends to the entire Solana community. It stands as a lasting artifact of a collective journey, merging iconic narrative strength with the forging of a new technological frontier.
