The Perfume

THE PERFUME
A perfume bottle holds something that cannot be seen, cannot be touched, cannot be described with any precision — only experienced, and only by the person who receives it. The same fragrance lands differently on every skin. What someone else smells as rose, you receive as something warmer, more personal, more yours. The bottle is identical for everyone. What comes out of it belongs only to you.
This is also a description of a human being.
The artist keeps returning to the perfume bottle as a subject, because he understands something about it that goes deeper than scent: the bottle is the vessel, the container, the form that holds and protects the essence. And the essence — the particular irreplaceable frequency of what each human being actually is — is what no one can smell for you, decode for you, or receive on your behalf.
Against a vivid backdrop of greens, salmon, blues and pinks — the accumulated colour of an artist who has never confused restraint with depth — the silver bottle stands with the quiet authority of something that knows exactly what it contains. The washi tape and Posca markers carry the visual energy of a practice still in full discovery, every layer adding to a surface that rewards close looking.
What is your fragrance? Not the one you wear. The one you are.
30.5 × 30.5 cm · Acrylic, glue, washi tape, Posca markers and stickers on canvas panel · 2022 · One of a kind Unframed. Signed on the front and signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.