Mantis Lineage Seal

 
MANTIS LINEAGE SEAL
Some marks are older than language. Before alphabets, before written codes, human beings created symbols to hold meaning that words couldn't contain — geometric seals that carried identity, permission, alignment. A visual signature for something too precise to be spoken.
Mantis Lineage Seal works in that tradition.
A central vertical form anchors the entire composition — a totemic pillar, striped and chromatic, that moves through the painting like a transmitting tower. Its circular terminals at either end function as access points, nodes where different layers of the work connect. Green diamonds punctuate the field with crystalline precision. Around all of it, organic textures and fluid marks introduce something looser, living, unpredictable — the raw material that structured intelligence is always working with.
The palette is unapologetic. Red, yellow, blue and green at full intensity, held together by a composition that knows exactly what it is doing. Chaos and order not in conflict, but in conversation.
This is a painting that doesn't ask to be analysed. It asks to be stood in front of. Something in the geometry does its work quietly, below the threshold of interpretation — a steadying presence, a point of coherence in a room that needs one.
30 × 30 cm · Acrylic, gesso, ink and varnish on birchwood panel · 2025 · One of a kind Presented in a black floating frame. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included. Currently exhibited at the Freud Museum, London.