Art Curious Contemporary

Gemi – Series

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Gold and ore surfacing through smoke — dense matter caught in the act of emerging from, and dissolving back into, atmosphere.

A horizontal abstract composition divided into two luminous forms set against a field of churning slate-gray and charcoal vapor. The left mass rises vertically, a pale cream and ochre column flecked with dark branching cracks that spread across its surface like lichen or crazed varnish. The right mass is broader and warmer, glowing amber and honey gold at its core and dissolving into rust and deep brown at its lower edges. Both surfaces have a crusted, mineral quality, as if gilded plaster had flaked and oxidized. A pale channel of smoke separates them through the center, and near the bottom of that gap sits a small dark form topped with a white highlight, the only compact, solid shape in the frame. The gray tonality here reads quite differently from the LightBlast series. If the Gemi work sits under its own header on the site, the northern Baroque framing may need an adjustment, since this one leans closer to a Turner or Whistler atmospheric register than to Rembrandt's warm interior light.

Gemi 1, 2025, museum-quality lightfast ink on aluminum plate, size varies (unprinted)

A horizontal abstract composition with two rounded, bone-colored masses set against a soft gray-green atmospheric field. The left form is taller and narrower, its left flank washed in mustard and amber that breaks into scattered flecks along the edge. The right form is broader and lobed, with a vivid orange patch spreading across its center in torn, leaf-like shapes surrounding a small dark opening. Both forms have a worn, eroded surface suggesting weathered stone or plaster with gilding partly rubbed away. Smoke and mist drift between and over them, blurring their outlines, and the background darkens toward the corners.

Gemi 2, 2025, museum-quality lightfast ink on aluminum plate, size varies (unprinted)

A horizontal abstract composition set against a dark, mottled field of charcoal and slate. On the left, a wide spread of small gold and ochre flecks disperses across the surface like scattered leaf or mineral grit, with a rust-colored crust along the far left edge. On the right, a denser, more solid mass of saturated yellow-gold glows with a brushed, mottled surface and darkens abruptly to black along its lower boundary. Vertical plumes of pale smoke rise through the center and right of the frame, softening the forms and partly obscuring them. Fine pale filaments appear near the lower right corner.

Gemi 3, 2025, museum-quality lightfast ink on aluminum plate, size varies (unprinted)

A horizontal abstract composition on a dark charcoal and slate ground. Along the left, gold and ochre flecks scatter in a loose drift, anchored by a rust-toned crust at the far edge. On the right sits a dense, saturated mass of amber and yellow with a brushed, granular surface, its lower edge dropping into deep black. Heavy columns of pale gray smoke rise vertically through the middle of the frame and billow across the right side, veiling the gold more completely than in adjacent works in the series. Thin pale filaments rise from the lower right corner.

Gemi 4, 2025, museum-quality lightfast ink on aluminum plate, size varies (unprinted)

A horizontal abstract composition dominated by two large rounded forms that read like weathered boulders or ore deposits. Each is built from deep black and umber, split by broad seams of molten-looking gold and bronze that catch the light along their upper and inner faces. Streaks of chalky white run through both masses and pool in the upper center of the frame. The surfaces are heavily textured, with a fractured, geological quality suggesting split rock or cooled slag. Gray smoke and mist swirl around and between the two forms, softening their outlines against a dark, atmospheric ground.

Gemi 5, 2025, museum-quality lightfast ink on aluminum plate, size varies (unprinted)

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