Red Shells & Inner Maps — A Cartography of the Inner Body
This series of five diptychs explores the fragile architecture of the human interior. Each pair of works reveals a different way the body opens — abruptly or gently, through fracture or breath — exposing the symbolic landscapes that live beneath the red shell.
Across the series, childlike drawings, blue gestures, and fractured silhouettes form a vocabulary of memory. Some openings erupt with urgency; others whisper with restraint. Together, they create a cartography of the inner body — a map of the stories, wounds, and luminous fragments that shape who we are.
These diptychs are not windows but thresholds: moments where the surface breaks and the interior insists on being seen. A meditation on exposure, vulnerability, and the quiet persistence of what survives inside us.
Red Shells I — The First Opening
In this diptych, two red figures confront the moment of their first opening — the instant when the body stops being a surface and begins to reveal the world it carries within.
On the left, the rupture exposes a vibrant, almost eruptive interior: symbols, lines, memories, and fragments of childhood surge outward as if the figure were unable to contain them any longer. It is an impulsive, organic opening, a gesture larger than the body itself.
On the right, the revelation is quieter. The opening is precise, almost meditative, allowing only a controlled glimpse into a more ordered, restrained interior. The figure seems to breathe slowly before letting the world enter.
Together, the two images form a dialogue about the first act of exposure — the moment when the body decides it can no longer remain closed. It is the beginning of everything: the first beat, the first crack, the first light.
MediumMixed Media (virtual and physical)
Size200 × 300 cm (2 panels, 150 × 200 cm each)
Edition 1/1 Year1964 / 2025 Price€6,500
Red Shells II — The Quiet Tension
In this diptych, two red forms stand side by side, each carrying its own way of breaking open. The left figure reveals an interior shaped by irregular fractures — a raw, instinctive opening where symbols, landscapes, and gestures emerge as if pushed outward by an inner pressure. The rupture feels accidental yet inevitable, like a memory forcing its way to the surface.
The right figure opens differently: with a smoother, more deliberate contour. Its interior is quieter, more structured, almost contemplative. The drawings inside unfold with a sense of order, as if the figure were choosing carefully what to reveal and what to protect.
Together, the two panels create a subtle but powerful tension — a dialogue between chaos and control, between the wound that bursts and the wound that breathes. It is a meditation on the many ways a body can hold its stories, and the delicate balance between exposure and restraint.
Medium Mixed Media (virtual and physical)
Size 200 × 300 cm (2 panels, 150 × 200 cm each)
Edition 1/1 Year 1964 / 2025 Price €6,500
Inner Maps I — The Blue Memory
In this diptych, two red shells stand like guardians of their own inner landscapes. The left figure opens onto a glowing red interior filled with playful white drawings — bicycles, boats, houses, waves, stars. It feels like a child’s universe preserved inside a fractured body, a memory that refuses to fade.
The right figure reveals a deeper, cooler world: a blue interior where similar symbols appear, but softened, quieter, as if filtered through time. The drawings echo the left panel, yet they carry a different weight — more reflective, more distant, like memories revisited rather than lived.
Together, the two panels form a dialogue between two states of remembrance: the immediacy of childhood imagination and the calm, tidal pull of adult memory. It is a diptych about how our inner maps shift over time — the same symbols, the same stories, but held with different temperatures of the soul.
MediumMixed Media (virtual and physical)
Size200 × 300 cm (2 panels, 150 × 200 cm each)
Edition 1/1 Year 1964 / 2025Price €6,500
Inner Maps II — The Silent Architecture
In this diptych, two red bodies stand like weathered monuments, each carrying a fragile opening into an inner world shaped by memory. The left figure reveals a wide, irregular aperture filled with childlike drawings — a house, animals, school desks, small symbols of early life. The interior feels raw and immediate, as if the past were still warm, still breathing beneath the cracked surface.
The right figure holds a narrower, vertical opening, more controlled and architectural. The same symbols appear, but arranged with restraint, almost as if the memories had been archived rather than lived. The faint silhouettes surrounding the opening suggest presences that remain even when unspoken.
Together, the two panels form a quiet architecture of remembrance — one panel overflowing with the urgency of childhood, the other holding its stories with distance and discipline. It is a diptych about how memory shifts shape inside us: sometimes erupting, sometimes whispering, always present beneath the red shell of the body.
Medium Mixed Media (virtual and physical)
Size 200 × 300 cm (2 panels, 150 × 200 cm each)
Edition 1/1Year1964 / 2025Price€6,500
Red Atlas — The Deep Fracture
In this final diptych of the series, two red surfaces hold the weight of memory like geological layers. The left panel opens onto a burst of childlike drawings — a rainbow, a car, a house, a figure, small symbols of early life rendered with the immediacy of a child’s hand. The torn opening feels abrupt, almost violent, as if the past had been ripped out of the body rather than gently revealed.
The right panel shifts the focus to the head — the seat of thought, imagination, and recollection. A jagged fracture exposes another constellation of drawings: animals, faces, objects, fragments of stories that once shaped the inner world. A blue gesture near the ear interrupts the red field, like a sudden breath or a pulse of intuition.
Together, the two panels form a map of inner fractures — the places where memory breaks through the surface and insists on being seen. It is a diptych about the archaeology of the self: the layers we carry, the wounds that open, and the fragile, luminous drawings that survive inside us.
Medium Mixed Media (virtual and physical)
Size 200 × 300 cm (2 panels, 150 × 200 cm each)
Edition 1/1 Year 1964 / 2025 Price €6,500