This work began as a symbolic transmutation of the 2019 fire of Notre Dame de Paris, when, while burning years of accumulated papers, I came across an old missal of Gregorian chants dating from my childhood as a choirboy at the cathedral.
Introduced to flames page by page, the volatile textures of the paper became the primary medium for this series of collage paintings. Ashes later evolved using old metaphysical books, poems, sheet music, celestial charts, and personal records kept along the years.
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