Aiman
#7e7f7c, 2026
Oil on Linen
130 x 130 cm
'About the series: Of Particles and Particularities considers how life is shaped not only by what is lived, but by how it is later understood. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s notion...
"About the series:
Of Particles and Particularities considers how life is shaped not only by what is lived, but by how it is later understood. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity, the works reflect on how meaning is not immediate but formed over time—through acts of remembering, reordering, and making sense of experience in hindsight. Across layered and shifting surfaces, landscapes unfold as thresholds—seas, deserts, mountains, and skies—where traces of accumulation and revision remain visible. These are not depictions of place, but of process: where experience and its interpretation remain in tension. What appears fragmented begins, gradually, to gather coherence, though never fully resolved. These questions are grounded in a personal shift: the experience of becoming a parent. What once felt like a singular narrative begins to open outward, revealing itself as part of a larger, unfolding field of relation. Moments that seemed self-contained are re-situated through another life—no longer held in isolation, but shaped through proximity, responsibility, and time. Each beginning carries with it an entry into an already existing world of others, where lives overlap and reconfigure one another. The work moves within this condition—what Hannah Arendt describes as natality—not as an abstract concept, but as a lived reality in which the self is continually formed in relation. In this way, fragmentation and coherence is held in tension, where meaning is neither fixed nor complete, but continually gathered—through time, through others, and through the ongoing act of interpretation."
Of Particles and Particularities considers how life is shaped not only by what is lived, but by how it is later understood. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity, the works reflect on how meaning is not immediate but formed over time—through acts of remembering, reordering, and making sense of experience in hindsight. Across layered and shifting surfaces, landscapes unfold as thresholds—seas, deserts, mountains, and skies—where traces of accumulation and revision remain visible. These are not depictions of place, but of process: where experience and its interpretation remain in tension. What appears fragmented begins, gradually, to gather coherence, though never fully resolved. These questions are grounded in a personal shift: the experience of becoming a parent. What once felt like a singular narrative begins to open outward, revealing itself as part of a larger, unfolding field of relation. Moments that seemed self-contained are re-situated through another life—no longer held in isolation, but shaped through proximity, responsibility, and time. Each beginning carries with it an entry into an already existing world of others, where lives overlap and reconfigure one another. The work moves within this condition—what Hannah Arendt describes as natality—not as an abstract concept, but as a lived reality in which the self is continually formed in relation. In this way, fragmentation and coherence is held in tension, where meaning is neither fixed nor complete, but continually gathered—through time, through others, and through the ongoing act of interpretation."