'Wake' (2023) painted on an iridescent abalone shell, depicts a detail from Dieric Bouts’ workshop Mater Dolorosa (c.1470-5), whose face filled with pearl-like tears emerges from the iridescence of the...
'Wake' (2023) painted on an iridescent abalone shell, depicts a detail from Dieric Bouts’ workshop Mater Dolorosa (c.1470-5), whose face filled with pearl-like tears emerges from the iridescence of the shell’s color-filled nacre. Evoking the formlessness of the sea and the potentiality of creation, it also carries a primordial history as an emblem of life and the nature of being.