Drowned Gardens of Silence is a body of work set beneath the surface - in the deep zones where light behaves differently, where forms grow without wind, and where the logic of the living world no longer fully applies. Working in layered blues with strips of recycled paper pressed into root systems, tendrils, and tangled vertical forms, the paintings inhabit a space between landscape and organism, between stillness and slow motion.

Two seas made this work. The Baltic of childhood - cold, pewter-grey, silent in winter - and the Arabian Gulf of the present: warm, luminous, vast in a different way. 

These are not elegies for the ocean. They are portraits of persistence, of what continues to grow, to reach, to remain standing when the ground beneath has shifted or disappeared entirely. Each work in the series asks the same quiet question: what holds, when holding is no longer certain?