Memories Tainted with Black Gold, 2022

140 x 30 cm

Wall cavity, Vantablack paint

A small hole is pierced into the wall, neat, surgical. From it, a thick blackness escapes, sliding down in slow, steady lines. It doesn’t drip. It invades. It marks.

The black is not just black. It is Vantablack, one of the darkest substances ever made, absorbing light, reflection, and visibility itself. Like buried memory. Like oil.

This work was created by boring a hole directly into the gallery wall, then coating the interior with Vantablack paint. The material does not just darken, it consumes. The lines trailing downward were guided by gravity alone, uninterrupted, like something returning.

What leaks here isn’t just pigment.
It’s silence. It’s weight.
It’s what remains after the maps are redrawn,vand the sky goes quiet again.