What Remains
From the Excavation Series
What Remains is the final work in the Excavation series — the point at which excavation gives way to stillness.
After accumulation, disturbance, and erasure, the surface withdraws from image and language. Marks persist, but without instruction. Forms appear, then refuse to resolve. What remains is not absence, but compression — a field shaped by everything that has passed through it.
The painting carries evidence of pressure rather than gesture. Abrasion, fracture, and residue sit quietly across the surface, suggesting that meaning has already been worked through and left behind. Nothing here asks to be interpreted. Nothing announces itself as symbol.
Where earlier works in the series negotiate awareness and density, this work releases both. The darkness is not metaphorical. It is practical — a space that absorbs rather than explains.
What Remains closes the series by recognising the limit of excavation. Not everything improves through uncovering. Some things gain weight only when allowed to remain partially unseen.
This is not an ending that resolves.
It is an ending that holds.
Series Context
What Remains forms part of the completed Excavation series, alongside Presence and Excavation.
Read together, the three works move from awareness, through saturation, into stillness — tracing the conditions under which meaning is sought, accumulated, and finally released.
This body of work is closed.
Provenance & Details
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Original artwork, one-of-a-kind
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Mixed media on premium canvas
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Hand-signed by the artist
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Accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity
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Full photographic documentation included
Dimensions
100 × 100 cm / 39 × 39 in
Framing
Tasmanian oak frame (professional grade).
Availability
This work is no longer publicly available for purchase.
What Remains is held as part of the private Excavation series and is available only through direct collector placement.
Shipping & Handling
Worldwide insured delivery in custom protective crate.
Artwork value declared in full for insurance coverage.
Ships from Melbourne, Australia.
Pricing
Removed from public display.
