The Hunting of the snark
The Hunting of the Snark is a series that unfolds as an inward journey, using landscape and architecture as mirrors for interior states. These works do not describe specific places so much as mental spaces, passages, and pauses, where emotion is suspended, and quietly resonant. The title, drawn from The Hunting of the Snark, frames the series as an elusive pursuit, a search for meaning, certainty, or self that is driven by rigor and intention, yet never fully resolved. Across the series, hard lines and simple geometric shapes establish a sense of control and structure. Roads, walls, corridors, and planes recede toward vanishing points, guiding the gaze inward rather than outward. This perspectival creates an introspective tension. The viewer is invited to enter, but what lies ahead remains ambiguous. These spaces often feel uninhabited, emphasizing notions of presence and absence. Human traces appear without human figures, environments suggest memory, or expectation, yet remain silent and still. Organic elements such as trees, vegetation, and slopes of land interrupt or border these rigid constructions. Nature appears restrained, almost contained, in dialogue with architectural rigour. This coexistence reflects an early exploration of balance between intuition and discipline, between the organic and the constructed. The emotional tone remains minimal and restrained, closer to quiet contemplation than expression, where feeling emerges through proportion, distance, and restraint rather than gesture.

As one of my first series, The Hunting of the Snark marks a foundational moment in my practice. It is where I began exploring simple forms and hard edges, alongside an emerging interest in mathematical composition, balance, and spatial rigour. Influenced by the minimalist movement, the work seeks reduction rather than excess and clarity rather than narrative. Within this rigour, absence becomes expressive. Empty roads, blank walls, and open skies act as emotional carriers, allowing the viewer to project their own inner states. Ultimately, the series is less about arrival than about pursuit. Like the Snark itself, meaning remains just beyond reach, suggested through structure and withheld through emptiness. What persists is the act of looking, moving, and searching, a quiet and disciplined chase through landscapes that mirror the interior territory of thought and feeling.
The Road 2, Gloss and oil paint on aluminium sheet, 50 x 60 cm, 2006

From top left to right: The Road , Gloss and oil paint on aluminium sheet, 50 x 60 cm. Choucroute, Gloss and oil paint on aluminium sheet, 50 x 60 cm.
Bottom left: The Door, Gloss and oil paint on aluminium sheet, 50 x 60 cm. Bottom right: Portée Complexe, Gloss and oil paint on aluminium sheet, 120 x 100 cm.
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