Lantian D.

Le Rouge et le Noir

Oil, acrylic, emulsion and ballast on canvas

120 x 160cm, 2019

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it, I would die, scattered to the winds.
– Albert Camus

Metamorphoses

Oil, acrylic, emulsion and ballast on canvas

160 x 120cm, 2019

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

– Heraclitus

Paradise Lost

Oil on canvas

140 x 160cm, 2019

You…remain.

– Samuel Beckett, Endgame

Hamlet

Oil, emulsion and charcoal on canvas

130 x 97cm, 2019

“Doubt thou the stars are fire,

Doubt that the sun doth move,

Doubt truth to be a liar,

But never doubt I love."

– Hamlet

Man and a Window

Oil on canvas

195 x 130cm, 2018

The Inferior Predator

Oil on canvas

146 x 97cm, 2018

2+2=4

Oil and chalk on canvas,

146 x 97cm, 2017

As though such a stone wall really were a consolation, and really did contain some word of conciliation, simply because it is as true as twice two makes four.

– Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground