MINERAL
Mineral explores pigment as elemental matter, using photography to capture temporary compositions shaped by color, materiality, and the impermanence of form.
Mineral begins with pigment in its most elemental state. Before becoming paint, image or surface, color appears as loose matter, unstable and on the verge of dispersal.
These pigments are arranged into chromatic compositions of strong material presence. The logic underlying these formations resonates with the tradition of Buddhist mandalas, where the careful construction of form coexists with the awareness of its impermanence.
Each composition exists only for a brief interval. Once assembled, the material inevitably returns to dispersion, and the drawing disappears to make way for another configuration.
Photography becomes the place where this instant remains. Not as the fixation of form, but as the memory of a gesture that acknowledges the transience of matter and time.
