Patience Series: Patience 1

This piece is the first in the Patience Series, depicting a lone figure seated inside the Tube. By obscuring the subject’s identity, I invite viewers to project their own interpretations, focusing instead on context and body language. This painting represents a turning point in my practice, where I embrace broader brushstrokes and a more open-ended approach, leaving details deliberately undefined. In doing so, I create space for the viewer’s imagination to complete the narrative.

About this series

This series explores impermanence and mortality as inescapable conditions of life. Each work depicts familiar public settings—cafés, street corners, local shops—where people engage in quiet, everyday routines. By pixelating the faces of humans, animals, and other living beings, I highlight the shared fate that unites us beyond identity: all life is finite.

“Memento Mori” invites viewers to consider mortality not as a dramatic or distant concept, but as a quiet undercurrent within the ordinary. Future pieces in the series will alternate between scenes in the UK and Colombia, tracing a universal thread through culturally distinct landscapes.