Evidence 2 (Ancient Impressions) Plywood Contemporary Painting

Arranged like a modest cabinet of curiosities, these fossil-like fragments suspend botanical memory in a warm, earthen field, where each shard becomes both relic and intimate portrait. The muted ochres and greens read as pigments of time—lightly pressed into stone—so that leaves, wing, and fern appear less depicted than recovered, as if the image has been patiently excavated from silence. The composition’s gentle asymmetry creates a quiet rhythm of pauses and returns, inviting the eye to wander between absence and imprint, between what once lived and what endures as trace. In this tender taxonomy, nature is not monumentalized but held—carefully, fragment by fragment—as an ethics of attention to the small and the vanished.