Process: Fine Art Pigment Prints / Dimensions: Various / Year: 2025
The Anti-Series Theory
1. Three Phase Distribution Transformator / 50x38 cm
2. Exposed Rocky Peak with a Cliff Ledge / 38X50 cm
3. Double Frame Parallel Borders in Pantone 187 / 19X26 cm
It is often comfortable to think in series when developing artistic concepts, creating and exhibiting artworks that somehow belong together. Producing in series provides structure to the artistic process, allowing ideas to be tested across multiple iterations, methods and formal choices to be refined, and the accumulation of small changes to be observed — or simply a story to be told through multiple propositions. Working in series also makes it possible to explore a theme through its variations: each work stands on its own while entering into dialogue with the others. A series introduces rhythm — a pulse that carries through the works. Repetition establishes familiarity, while subtle shifts generate tension and release, while continuity creates narrative.
What happens when rules are broken? If a coherent series creates rhythm and harmony, does an anti-series resist it? Instead of allowing repetition to guide perception, each work interrupts the expectation of continuity. Could there be an unconscious, non-rational way of handling artistic choices and bringing elements together? Is it possible to bypass established, automated modes of thinking and procedure? What do a machine, a rock ledge, and a red frame have in common? The frame structures the space, the rock provides natural resonance, and the machine introduces rhythm — together exploring the dialogue between permanence and temporality. An unconscious, purely aesthetic choice can indeed provide a kind of link, even within an anti-series.
The most radical and final anti-series gesture would be to sell the works individually, freeing each piece to exist on its own. Each may hang in a different home, on a different wall. The anti-series thus becomes a conceptual network, where separation itself generates meaning.
This work is a special contribution for this year’s (CAL) Salon Artistique in Luxembourg.
