REMAINS. ​

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The collection began in the Catacombs of Paris, where I walked among the bones of countless people. I felt overwhelmed, saddened, humbled, and deeply inspired. Few places have confronted me so directly with the fragility of life.

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Years ago, I chose to study philosophy because I was searching for answers to questions about existence, mortality, and meaning. Even after taking that unconventional path, I still find myself, like many people, looking for distractions from the inevitability of death. In the Catacombs, however, that reality was impossible to avoid.

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The Catacombs held more than human remains. Throughout their passages, I encountered poetry, philosophical inscriptions, and words written to give meaning to death and ease its weight. Experiencing these elements together felt like an unexpected illumination emerging from the depths.

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Since then, I have been reading, researching, and writing. Through this collection, I now have the opportunity to bring those words into my artistic practice and share them alongside the artworks. It feels as though parts of myself that had long existed separately have finally found one another.

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Through Remains, I want to keep that awareness present as I paint. Each work will explore what is left behind, not only physically, but through memory, emotion, language, and the traces of a life once lived.

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Seeing these human remains in person allowed me to understand their physical presence in a way that photographs alone could never convey. The visual references used throughout the collection come from the real bones I encountered and documented inside the Catacombs.

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Each artwork is intended to be a truly singular object, rooted in the reality of existence itself.

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I am painting what remains as a reminder that we were here.