Vans
My most recent paintings, Vans, represent an ongoing project of working with imagery coming from my own atlas of photography. The images come from an abandoned junkyard outside of Cluj, where the vegetation is starting to enrobe the old bits of metal. Vans is the series in which I have explored the potential of oil paint the most so far, alternating between turpentine heavy mediums creating thin washes of paint mixed with charcoal and graphite and heavily textured brushstrokes. Furthermore, I have investigated elements like depth, dynamism and chromatic perspective. The images contain an uncanniness that highlights their liminal status of representations of objects that no longer fulfil their purpose.
