2024
Acrylic on structured (artist’s media) paper
70×200
The painting captures a breathtaking moment in the vastness of space: two astronauts, suspended in the infinite expanse, are drifting toward each other. The background is a deep, velvety black, dotted with distant stars, symbolizing the vast emptiness of the cosmos. One astronaut extends a gloved hand, gently reaching out, while the other clutches a small, transparent device cradling a tiny, vibrant green plant. The plant glows faintly, a delicate contrast to the cold, sterile environment around it, symbolizing the fragility of life amidst the harsh void.
The composition emphasizes isolation yet connection, as the astronauts’ visors reflect each other, hinting at shared purpose and human resilience. Their suits are sleek and modern, with subtle hints of wear, conveying the sense of a long journey. The scene is both serene and tense, evoking questions of survival, exploration, and the power of life to persist even in the most extreme conditions.
Structured paper
The symbolism of papers united together in the context of space-time travel carries deep metaphoric resonance, drawing on themes of connectivity, continuity, and the preservation of knowledge across dimensions. Each individual sheet represents a fragment of reality, experience, or time—when bound together, these pages form a unified narrative that transcends the limitations of space and time. Here’s a more detailed exploration of this concept:
individual papers symbolize distinct moments in time or separate dimensions of existence, the binding of these pages represents the connection of these discrete moments into a cohesive whole.The pages unified symbolize how all things, no matter how disparate they may seem, are part of a single, larger structure. A bound set of papers in the context of space-time travel could be seen as a living record of the universe’s history. The metaphor here is that the universe itself is a book, and time travel is a journey through its pages. How fragile human life with each of own inventions can achieve continuity and meaning when placed within the greater context of time, the vulnerability of memory and the preservation of knowledge.