This painting is inspired by the urban environment, multi layered posters fragmented and eroded, advertisements and graffiti blending into one aethetic.

Chrysopoeia means transmutation into gold, it is alchemy. Turning base materials into gold, the impure into the pure. I found this bringing together of the impure graffiti aesthetic and making it appear as gold, something we hold to be so pure and prestigious, quite delicious. The profane into the sacred, almost. To take a material […]