ABOUT THE PAINTING: The act of painting is, at times, an act of excavation. Layers of memory, history, and personal mythology converge on the surface, forming something both deeply intimate and expansive. In A Private Cathedral for the Rituals of the Land, this process unfolds as a meditation on belonging—a physical and emotional return to the shifting terrain of identity. The work resists the rigidity of imposed structures, instead embracing a fluid, organic motion that challenges the very notion of fixed borders—geographical, historical, and psychological. The forms that emerge are simultaneously geometric and unruly, expanding and retracting as if caught in a perpetual state of negotiation. There is an inherent friction here: between discipline and instinct, the familiar and the unknown, the act of remembering and the inevitable process of transformation. Throughout, the land is not a passive entity, nor a mere backdrop to human presence. It is a force, resisting containment, asserting its own rhythms. In this space of tension, the work asks: how does one truly inhabit a landscape that is always in flux? Can we ever fully reclaim what was lost, or do we continuously reinvent the terms of our own belonging? What emerges is a kind of ritual—a way of communing with history, of tracing the contours of identity through pigment and form. The painting becomes not just an object, but a site of reimagination, where the past and present blur into something yet to be defined. . Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting Size: 150x100cm (before stretching) Medium: acrylics and pastels on raw cotton canvas Ready to hang: no, ships rolled and needs to be re-stretched by your local framer* Signature: verso, also signed Certificate Year: 2025 Finish: silky varnish with UV protection Shipping: in a professionally packaged tube * Shipping extra large formats rolled is safer and more environmentally friendly than shipping ready-to-hang works. The canvas can be easily re-stretched by a framer at your location, which in most cases is even much cheaper than the increased transport costs for a ready-to-hang painting. If you'd like a comparison quote for shipping ready-to-hang please contact me. Hot framing tip from the artist: use 2cm deep stretcher bars with reinforcements for minimum loss of painting area with the fold in the back. If a 2cm stretcher bar is used, the final size of the painting will be 144x94cm.