Cultural Stills / Telephone Cord Paintings

Both Cultural Stills and Telephone Cord Paintings explore how forms of communication and cultural memory can be transformed into images. In Cultural Stills, fragments of historical motifs are recomposed into hybrid still lifes, while in the Telephone Cord Paintings, the traces of conversation take on physical, abstract shape. Across both series, language, ornament, and signal become visual matter—ways of thinking about how meaning circulates, fades, and reappears through images.

The Cultural Stills paintings are made by first applying white acrylic on a white canvas, creating a nearly invisible relief. The canvases are then scanned and printed with color, merging digital and manual processes. The resulting images depict elements found on cultural and decorative objects—motifs from ceramics, textiles, and printed matter—brought together in new compositions. Each work functions like a hybrid still life, where traces of different visual traditions overlap and coexist. The layering of media and imagery reflects how cultural forms circulate and transform over time, revealing both continuity and dislocation in the way we perceive and reproduce images.

Telephone Cord Paintings (Telephone conversation, cord 1,2,3)
This series of three digital paintings isolates the telephone cord from its device, turning it into a sculptural and abstract form. Each coiled line twists and knots into shapes that seem to hover between writing and drawing—as if the conversation itself were condensed into a physical gesture. The cords’ looping forms, rendered in soft pinks, greens, and yellows, rest on bands of thick, horizontal brushstrokes that anchor them like fragments of language or signal. Together, they turn communication into image: a tangle of lines where speech has vanished but gesture remains.