Venice

Venice develops through layers of ochre, green, pale gold, and weathered texture in which the city is only partially revealed. Arches, mooring poles, gondolas, and water remain recognizable, yet none of them is allowed to dominate the image. Each element appears gradually, then merges back into the surrounding surface.

The canal provides depth, but the usual distinction between architecture, water, and reflection has been weakened. Structures seem to emerge from accumulated material rather than from conventional perspective, while traces of light pass through the scene like deposits held within the surface.

Within Mineral City, Venice explores a city shaped as much by memory and material accumulation as by physical form. The work does not describe Venice as a picturesque location. Instead, it treats the city as a layered condition, where water, stone, architecture, and reflected light remain visible while continually dissolving into one another across a slowly shifting mineral surface.