EARTH

Real earth, mixed into the paint. And everything that grows from it.

After gold, currency and blood — earth, the material of beginnings. Real soil is worked into the paint and sealed under varnish, so the ground itself is present in every piece. Whatever happens above it, the earth answers one way: it grows. This series is about that quiet, stubborn force — life that starts in the dark and refuses to stop.

UNIKEL — What Grows in the Dark — earth mixed into paint on canvas, metal frame

What Grows in the Dark

Earth mixed into paint on stretched canvas · 48 × 60 in · 2026 · archival prep process, sealed and varnished · metal frame

The canvas is black with real earth. Out of that darkness something pale climbs — root, branch, first light. Life does not ask permission: in the darkest ground it is already moving. The white is what hope looks like when it starts.

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Detail · What Grows in the Dark · real earth in the paint
UNIKEL — Unbroken — diptych, earth mixed into paint on two canvases, metal frames

Unbroken

Diptych · earth mixed into paint on two stretched canvases · 2026 · archival prep process, sealed and varnished · metal frame

One living line, carried across two canvases. The gap between the panels tries to end it — the line crosses anyway and keeps going on the other side. What grows cannot be cut in half: what is alive, continues.

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Detail · Unbroken · the line crosses the gap