The Body Remembers (1995–1996) Interlude from The Works

After exploring the landscape of the mind, the figure quietly returned.

Not as portrait. Not as anatomy. The body appeared as a vessel, a place where experience settles before it becomes language.

The circles that had moved through the previous paintings remained, but they no longer described thoughts.They became spaces within the body, thresholds, silent centers.

The figures themselves were unfinished almost anonymous. Identity no longer mattered.

Presence did. Looking back,I see these paintings as a transition.

The work was leaving the mind and moving toward something older.

Something instinctive.

Something that could no longer be understood through thought alone.

Soon afterwards,the bull entered the paintings.

And everything changed.