Rocket Paintings
2023
Approx 30x30 cm
Oil on MDF

These works draw on the quiet ambiguity found in Gerhard Richter’s candle paintings, where light flickers between stillness and motion. The image hovers between a delicate flame and the burst of rocket propulsion, shifting interpretations depending on how they are displayed. Fire, ever-present in human history, is the connecting thread—an ancient force of warmth, ritual, and destruction.

The forms evoke rockets, subtly pointing toward ideas of human ingenuity, exploration, and the tension between curiosity and conflict. These paintings exist in the space between calm and force, reflecting on our evolving relationship with fire and its transformative, unpredictable nature.

Artemis

Dart

Webb

Challenger

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