Information:

2026, Archival Pigment print

19.25 x 24 in (49 x 61 cm)

Edition of 12 (+ 2 AP)

Price: $ TBD

Collectors Notes:

• Rare stylistic crossover: photographic history and conceptual art.

• Museum-quality tone: atmospheric grayscale evoking silent-era cinematic aesthetics.

• Display impact: dramatic contrast, making it highly effective as a statement piece in both modern and classical interiors.

• Conversation catalyst: encourages viewer engagement and discussion, key for gallery and private collections.

Artist’s notes:

Madame Saks is neither oracle nor observer. She is an interface, a balancing point where perception and presence meet. Through her, the universe registers itself as meaningful.

The Totem is not inert material. It is an Egregore. It accumulates significance through belief, becoming a conduit through which individual perception contributes to a larger, shared field of awareness.

The idea of “fortune” is not a revelation of what will come. The fortune is the moment in which meaning is formed, as Madame Saks is a convergence of attention, object, and consciousness. Therefor she is entangled with everything, creating a feedback loop to the universe. She is the universe’s eyes.

Overall, the artwork suggests that meaning does not reside solely within the self or the world, but is built between them, gathered, recorded (through the Totem), and extended through acts of belief.

Artist’s Notes:

Completely out of place: a jaunty yellow sash on a predator. A deliberate contradiction, a visual pun serving to disrupt rational perception. So, it’s all about the title – the central trigger to its absurdity, a punch line before the joke.

And there’s more: a young woman in a dress, carrying a picnic basket. Casual, yet alert, glancing over her shoulder. A small dog as well, seemingly unconcerned or oblivious.

A distant white church with a steeple anchors the horizon. Above, the sky transitions from bright, hazy to dark, stormy, adding subtle tension. The girl, the basket, the dog, the church, all meaningless. But not in function. Ultimately, setting up the deadpan humour.

Overall: conceptual wit, memorable, conversation-starting, without heavy-handed symbolism. The viewer is warmly welcomed into whatever story suits them, or simply to be present within its humour.

Artist’s notes:

On-surface: Indie film storyboards, deep mystery, conceptual ambiguity, storytelling.

Off-surface: Grid as an analytic tool, instead of nine photographs, one photograph explored nine ways.

The feeling: film grain and faded tones are nostalgic, giving an analog aesthetic.

The action: Temporal evolution, perception brought through stages; abstraction to recognition.

The mood: cinematic stillness, atmospheric, fragmented narrative. A grid of moments that collectively build: distance, memory, dreamlike and archival.

Artist’s notes:

The figure feels archetypal. A dream character in motion. A bohemian Nomad. Restless, solitary, driven by self-discovery. Freedom-loving, thriving through authenticity.

The penny farthing bicycle is a powerful metaphor; innovative, unstable, and difficult to ride. The precarious balance one finds in life’s journey. Stopping is not easy; you must keep moving.

His costume is adorned with stars; a star man, an individual within the vast universe. Navigating their own path through time and existence.

The flying hat adds a slight comedic tone – the fool in mythology, the trickster. Unconventional, absurd, softening the seriousness of the journey. Perhaps leaving an old identity behind.

Overall, accessible surrealism – a balance of the believable and the impossible. More dreamlike than absurd.

Artist’s notes:

A contemporary piece resembling mixed media. Overall quiet, introspective, bittersweet.

The upright stems and warm yellow accents rise with hopeful delicacy. A small songbird, perhaps a wren or sparrow, is perched within these sparse, skeletal stems.

Then a dark spot, standing out sharply against the natural scene. A surreal element. Its disruption implies transcendence, a small counterpoint that shifts the entire perception of the scene.

Emptiness and grace side by side. Life is temporary and vulnerable, yet it continues, always reaching upwards, and the bird and flowers endure despite.

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Artist’s notes:

Notice how the human isn’t tangled in debris or struggling for air. He stands calmly, impossibly so. It tells me this isn’t a literal moment after a shipwreck, but a psychological or symbolic one. Perhaps the sailboat represents the collapse of an old worldview.

If so, it is made more poignant by the fish, eyes unblinking, floating with indifference to the man and his circumstances. Whatever his aftermath, it’s irrelevant. And so this fish symbolizes adaptability and persistence. It is not captive to history like people are; it swims, carrying its life forward on terms beyond our human intentions.

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Artist’s notes:

It is absurd… but refuses to acknowledge its absurdity. It does this through a quiet confidence, one that keeps you looking. I like how the cow acts as visual ballast; its indifference grounds the scene and delivers the joke silently. I also like the careful composition and restrained palette. It gives a unique mood and a quiet tension.

Overall, it handles the extraordinary with subtlety, avoiding strong cliches. This works because it is presented with sincerity despite the situation being inherently improbable, a mismatch that creates an appealing irony.

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Artist’s notes

The grid insists on fragmentation, sequence, and progression. The division of space and time. Yet in the final row, the walking man crosses two panels at once. A disruption in the orderliness that the deer reveals is an illusion.

And the deer carries no intention towards this revelation: it simply arrives. It lacks intent, so it doesn’t fail. Its presence refuses to let time and space be cleanly parsed. This was Zeno’s ultimate lesson: to divide endlessly is to describe endlessly. But reality is not bound by description.