Bath Anchor
2025
40 × 60 cm
Oil on linen with rice paper collage and black ink
The painting originates from a moment of disorientation: entering a bathroom in complete darkness, the familiar space becomes unrecognizable. Without sight, the surrounding fixtures, tiles, walls, fittings, dissolve into imagination, and the room transforms into something closer to a threshold than a place.
The baroque frame at the center of the composition functions not as decoration but as a portal, an opening into another dimension of perception. Everything around it, the architectural lines, the checkered floor, the faint outlines of the room, unfolds gradually from the single red dot at its core. That point of red is the only certainty: a fixed coordinate in a space that has otherwise become fictional. The frame no longer contains an image; it contains the act of imagining one.