Disintegrating one’s need for affiliation, 2008
220 x 300cm | 86.6 x 118in
oil, charcoal on four canvases

Slow Parade, 2008-2009
200 x 300cm | 78.7 x 118in
oil, charcoal on canvas

Memory Theater, 2008
220 x 370cm | 86.6 x 145.6in
oil, charcoal on five canvases

Capacity-bound, 2008
160 x 240cm | 63 x 94.5in
oil, charcoal on two canvases

Der unnuetze Drang zur Beweisfuehrung, 2008
180 x 240cm | 70.8 x 94.5in
oil, charcoal, tape on two canvases

Some people are so obsessed with their past that they die of it, 2008
160 x 200cm | 63.4 x 78.7in
oil on canvas

Repeat, 2008
240 x 160cm | 94.5 x 63in
oil, charcoal on two canvases

We know more than we can use.

Look at all this stuff I’ve got in my head:
rockets and Venetian churches, David Bowie and Diderot,
nuoc mam and Big Macs, sunglasses and orgasms. ]

- Susan Sontag

Untitled, 2009

100 x 70cm | 39.3 x 27.5in
ink, charcoal on paper

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What else can I say? Personally, a lot, of course, but I do not propose to do so.
– David Rieff

Places keep memories;
Once gone, life started to converge towards a point already known. Time contracts then expands, as if it all was a joke -

Dissection: Hope, 2008
115 x 150cm | 45.2 x 59in
oil on canvas

Dissection: Freedom, 2008
110 x 155cm | 43.3 x 61in
oil on canvas

Dissection: Adolescence, 2008
166 x 97cm | 65.3 x 38.1in
oil on canvas

Dissection: Introspection, 2008
130 x 155cm | 51.1 x 61in
oil on canvas

rendering efforts useless.