Cycle I -- Arboreal Structures

In the first cycle, the tree becomes the primary structural device of the landscape. No longer a natural motif, it operates as a vertical system of organization, distributing human, animal and symbolic presences across its branches.

These works recall both allegorical diagrams--such as the Tree of Life--and the compositional strategies of Northern Renaissance landscape, where the world is mapped through accumulation. Yet here hierarchy is destablized. The figures do not form a narrative sequence but appear isolated nodes within a network. Each presence is suspended, disconnected, existing within a shared but fragile structure.

The material treatment of the trees--almost fleshy, unstable, and energetic--transforms them into living bodies rather than supports. The arboreal form becomes a metaphor for memoy, identity and collective existence.

In this cycle, the storm is not visible in teh sky; it is embedded in the system itself. The landscape becomes a structure of latent tension, where coexistence does not imply harmony but precarious balance.