Description

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood brings the language of the icon back to the body. The central figure is stretched into a dark vertical presence, its pale, exposed forms marked by red as though flesh, wound, and pigment had become inseparable. Around it, smaller bodies and fragments gather like witnesses or echoes, while the surrounding darkness gives the composition the gravity of a devotional image without offering transcendence. Here, the sacred is pulled toward the earthly: spirit remains bound to skin, vulnerability, desire, and mortality. The painting turns the human body into both image and evidence, a fragile vessel carrying the weight of being alive.