Psyche Residue
Acrylic, Oil, and Pastel on Canvas (83x81 inches)
Acrylic, Oil, and Pastel on Canvas (83x81 inches)
Created in Mexico City, 2026
Psyche Residue explores the idea that experiences do not replace one another. They accumulate.
Rather than depicting transformation as a linear progression or a moment of release, this work treats consciousness as additive. Each gesture records what came before it. Early forms are not erased, but layered over, compressed, and carried forward as structure.
The repeated shapes function as residues of experience, traces of psychic material that remain active beneath the surface. What appears calm or resolved is, in fact, dense with prior content. The painting occupies a middle state in which awareness has emerged, but integration is incomplete.
Influenced by Jungian psychology and alchemical process, the work reflects a stage before purification or clarity. It represents matter that resisted dissolution, memory embedded in form, and the persistence of the unconscious within the present.
Primordial Accumulation proposes that becoming is not a shedding of the past, but the quiet construction of self through everything that remains.
