Hidden Myths

Artwork Details

Medusa's Gaze #1

2025 — Acrylic on Canvas — 61 x 61 cm

This work draws a parallel between the myth of Medusa's gaze and our modern relationship with social media. Just as Medusa turned onlookers to stone, today's endless scrolling can leave us mentally frozen — captured by screens, detached from presence and time. The geometric composition conceals a hidden word, inviting closer attention and reflection, while symbolising how subtly we become trapped within digital patterns. Through bold colour and abstraction, the painting explores how technology holds a similar power to petrify, echoing the ancient myth in a contemporary context.

Medusa's Gaze #2

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 76 x 51 cm

This version of the Medusa myth centres on the quiet trap of digital "stare." Framed like a smartphone screen, the composition draws the viewer inward toward the hidden word STARE, surrounded by layered bands of colour that echo the endless pathways of online platforms. The work reflects how social media captures attention and suspends awareness, leaving us momentarily immobilised — much like Medusa's victims. Through symmetry and repetition, the painting suggests a modern form of petrification, where constant connection paradoxically creates distance, and the act of looking becomes a form of surrender.

Icarus Fall #3

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 91 x 61 cm

This work reflects the quiet aftermath of Icarus's fall — the moment when ambition has already dissolved and only traces remain. The three feathers drift across the surface as fragile remnants, symbols of aspiration reduced to memory. The radiant sun and patterned sea create a calm yet unsettling balance, suggesting that the world continues unchanged despite individual collapse. Rather than depicting the fall itself, the painting lingers on absence, inviting viewers to consider what endures once the pursuit of elevation has ended, and how failure becomes part of the landscape we leave behind.

Icarus Fall #2

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 46 x 46 cm

Icarus Fall 2 reinterprets the ancient myth of ascent and collapse through the lens of contemporary ambition. Like Icarus, modern society is driven by the desire to rise beyond limits, pursuing success, power, and constant achievement. The circular arrows suggest cycles of striving and repetition, echoing a culture that celebrates elevation while quietly anticipating failure. Through bold graphic forms and fragmented text, the work invites viewers to consider whether the fall is a consequence of excess ambition, or an inevitable outcome of a world that equates value with perpetual ascent.

Pandora's Box #1

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 51 x 51 cm

This work revisits the myth of Pandora's box through the lens of contemporary technological discovery. As in the ancient story, the act of opening unleashes forces that rapidly expand beyond human control, here symbolised by radiating lines and multiplying forms that suggest the accelerating reach of artificial intelligence. The outward movement reflects both possibility and uncertainty, echoing the unpredictable consequences of innovation. At the centre, the word hope remains — a reminder that even amid disruption and transformation, humanity continues to search for meaning, responsibility, and optimism within what it has released into the world.

Pandora's Box #2

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 76 x 61 cm

Pandora's Box 2 continues the reflection on technological discovery through the power of language. Layers of words associated with innovation, intelligence, control, and uncertainty overlap and radiate outward, echoing the moment Pandora's box is opened and consequences spill into the world. The dense field of text captures attention while suggesting the overwhelming flow of information that defines the digital age. By using language as both image and meaning, the work invites viewers to consider how artificial intelligence is shaped not only by technology itself, but by the narratives, expectations, and fears we project onto it.

Pandora's Box #3

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 76 x 51 cm

Pandora's Box 3 explores artificial intelligence as a constellation of possibilities rather than a single discovery. Multiple box-like forms appear across a networked structure, suggesting the many capabilities, tools, and outcomes released through technological innovation. The interconnected lines and nodes evoke digital systems and data networks, linking the ancient myth of Pandora to contemporary technological reality. Instead of one moment of opening, the work proposes an ongoing process — each "box" representing a new potential, risk, or opportunity emerging within an expanding technological web.

Prometheus's Fire #1

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 91 x 61 cm

Prometheus's Fire #1 draws a parallel between the myth of Prometheus — who gifted fire to humanity — and the transformative power of digital technology today. Streams of binary code evoke the language of contemporary innovation, suggesting a new form of "fire" that reshapes how we live, communicate, and create. Hidden within the composition, the word FIRE emerges only from a distance, echoing how the full impact of technological change often becomes visible only over time. The work reflects on knowledge as both empowerment and responsibility, asking what it means to carry a gift powerful enough to transform the human world.

Prometheus Fire #2

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 66 x 66 cm

This work continues the exploration of the Prometheus myth through the visual language of digital technology. The composition resembles an electronic circuit board, where pathways of connection suggest the flow of energy, information, and innovation — a contemporary equivalent to the fire Prometheus once gave humanity. Embedded within the structure, a subtle, non-functional QR code appears as a symbol rather than a tool, pointing to our reliance on digital gateways for knowledge and access. By merging ancient mythology with technological imagery, the painting reflects on how the "fire" of innovation now circulates through invisible networks, shaping human experience in new and unpredictable ways.

Narcissus Gaze #1

2025 — Acrylic on canvas — 76 x 51 cm

This work revisits the myth of Narcissus through the lens of contemporary self-image and digital culture. The composition resembles a fractured mirror radiating outward, suggesting both reflection and fragmentation. Hidden within the pattern, the word ME emerges as a subtle focal point, pointing to the growing fixation on identity, visibility, and self-representation in modern life. By connecting the ancient story of Narcissus with today's image-driven world, the painting invites viewers to reflect on how the pursuit of self-recognition can both define and divide our sense of who we are.