Title: Behind the Dust of what Has Been our Certainties Are Hidden
Year Completed: 2026
Size: 80x80x2
Technical: Digital painting able to be printed and framed

Description
Memory rarely disappears; it simply becomes buried. This composition unfolds like an excavation of consciousness, where every translucent layer conceals another fragment of experience. Ancient scripts, fading ornaments, burning embers, roses suspended between bloom and decay, and weathered textures intertwine to suggest that time does not erase meaning—it obscures it. The past survives not as a continuous narrative but as scattered traces awaiting recognition. The title proposes an inversion of a familiar belief. We often imagine certainty as something that precedes experience, only to be dismantled by life. Here, however, certainty lies at the deepest level, hidden beneath the countless deposits left by existence itself. Disappointments, memories, forgotten affections, accumulated knowledge, and silent grief form the dust that covers rather than destroys what is essential. The visual language embraces this ambiguity. Nothing appears entirely revealed; every image seems to emerge and disappear simultaneously, as though the viewer were looking through successive veils of remembrance. Fire becomes both destruction and illumination. The rose embodies