Riddle of the Wasteland, 2026

The wasteland is one of mythology's oldest landscapes—a place where the ordinary rules of the world have broken down and every encounter carries symbolic weight. Riddle of the Wasteland imagines one of its inhabitants: a creature at once avian, mammalian, and skeletal, worn by hardship yet impossibly alive. It recalls the sphinxes, monsters, and prophetic beasts that confront heroes not with brute force but with questions whose answers transform the one who asks them. The painting offers no single interpretation. Like a true riddle, its meaning changes according to the viewer who stands before it.