Rites of Spring – Artwork
Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Textiles on canvas. 140 × 72 × 20cm (2026).
A ceremonial flag that binds mortality to renewal, holding skull, bloom, and radiance in a single emblem.
Rites of Spring takes the form of a ceremonial flag: part relic, part omen, part invocation. On its front, a pale skull hovers against a dark field, ringed by radiating lines like a saint’s halo or a burst of force, while scattered flowers interrupt the severity of the image with signs of bloom, fragility, and return. The work holds death and renewal in one emblem, treating spring not as innocence, but as a season of rupture — a threshold where beauty, violence, memory, and transformation arrive together.
Like much of our work, the piece moves through the visual languages of devotion, mortality, and ritual, but shifts them into something more unstable and alive. The skull does not only signify ending; it becomes a vessel, a standard, a heraldic sign for cyclical return. In Rites of Spring, spring is not decorative. It is conjured as an ancient force: ecstatic, unsettling, and deeply bound to the knowledge that every beginning carries the dust of what came before.
