Demolition (The Metamorphosis of Being) Printmaking Contemporary Printmaking

In stark black and white, a solitary suitcase becomes an uncanny monument at the vanishing point, as the road’s arrow insists on forward motion while the surrounding world fractures into reeds, bramble, and patterned ground. The circular halo reads like a spotlight or portal—an arena in which small skeletal creatures orbit the central object, turning travel into a meditation on residue, loss, and the thin membrane between departure and extinction. Etched textures and hard contrasts heighten the sense of inevitability, suggesting that what we carry is not merely baggage but an inventory of time, memory, and mortality. The composition’s controlled symmetry is continually unsettled by the creeping organic margins, as if nature—and the past—refuses to stay outside the frame.