Decorative Assemblages Vii Wood Abstract Painting

This mixed-media abstraction stages a quiet architecture of memory against a field of incendiary red, where scorched textures and stamped marks feel like residues of lived time rather than decorative surface. The pale central plane behaves like a worn palimpsest—scraped, layered, and interrupted by small, dark apertures—suggesting windows that both reveal and withhold. Along the right edge, three circular recesses read like ritual portholes or reliquaries, their metallic reliefs catching light as if salvaged icons, turning the composition into a contemplative ledger of fragments. The work balances heat and restraint, letting the red operate as emotional pressure while the embedded forms propose order, testimony, and the fragile attempt to catalog experience.