Splendor Series
Works such as Genesis stage exuberant baroque ornament against void-like backdrops, suggesting that every act of cultural “beginning” is already dressed in spectacle. Charcoal’s velvety darkness serves as primordial space, while flashes of gold leaf and chandelier forms announce the first spark of civilization. The series frames inception as both awe-inspiring and suspect: even at birth, empires arrive cloaked in luxury, power, and theatrical excess. Viewers are invited to consider what is lost—or fabricated—when a culture narrates its own grand entrance onto the world stage.