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All Available Works › The Bird Cage

The Bird Cage

$3,800.00

61 × 61 cm, oil on canvas, 2021 (Paris)
€3,800

The Bird Cage transforms a simple, familiar form into a vessel of quiet meaning — a still life that holds both intimacy and atmosphere. Painted in Paris in 2021, this 61 × 61 cm work belongs to the evolving rhythm of my Paris studio — a place where stillness, inquiry, and devotion intersect.

Here, the cage is both shelter and confinement — a protected space that can also become a quiet prison. So often the beliefs and systems that once kept us safe begin to restrict our growth. Art is what opens that door: it allows us to fly out and return again by choice, learning when to seek refuge and when to soar.

Stark, iconic, and prophetic, this painting steps into a liminal space between my oil paintings and woodblock prints. Could this be the first painting in a whole new direction for my work?

The Bird Cage is part of my Available Works — a continuing dialogue between image, freedom, and return.

61 × 61 cm, oil on canvas, 2021 (Paris)
€3,800

The Bird Cage transforms a simple, familiar form into a vessel of quiet meaning — a still life that holds both intimacy and atmosphere. Painted in Paris in 2021, this 61 × 61 cm work belongs to the evolving rhythm of my Paris studio — a place where stillness, inquiry, and devotion intersect.

Here, the cage is both shelter and confinement — a protected space that can also become a quiet prison. So often the beliefs and systems that once kept us safe begin to restrict our growth. Art is what opens that door: it allows us to fly out and return again by choice, learning when to seek refuge and when to soar.

Stark, iconic, and prophetic, this painting steps into a liminal space between my oil paintings and woodblock prints. Could this be the first painting in a whole new direction for my work?

The Bird Cage is part of my Available Works — a continuing dialogue between image, freedom, and return.

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Installed in the boardroom, the work functions as a steady presence. A reminder that beneath every transaction and decision, there is a longer current at work—one that precedes the company and will continue long after. It has become a kind of visual center for the room, quietly holding the space where important matters are worked through.