The Transfigurations series explores how images acquire new meanings as they migrate across visual cultures and technologies. Bringing together references to Old Master painting, Pop Art, contemporary media, and digital imagery, the paintings investigate how familiar icons and figures continue to evolve through reproduction, alteration, and recontextualization. Historical paintings, popular icons, contemporary figures, and digital avatars occupy the same visual space. Figures and motifs associated with Caravaggio and Warhol encounter pixel art, voxel forms, CryptoPunks, Meebits, and related digital imagery. These encounters produce hybrid images in which modeled flesh, Pop flatness, and hard-edged digital structures remain simultaneously visible. Different periods coexist within a single figure, allowing each visual language to change the way the others are read. Pixelation, voxel structures, glitch-like interruptions, and abrupt shifts in resolution become contemporary pictorial devices. Reconstructed through oil and acrylic paint, these screen-based forms acquire physical scale, texture, and duration. Painting becomes another stage in the image’s circulation, translating digital visual experience into the material language of paint. An image preserves its identity through continual transformation. The series proposes that cultural images remain active by adapting to new technologies, visual languages, and historical contexts. Each transformation carries recognizable traces of what came before while opening the image to meanings specific to the present.
