har-ish

have always been fascinated by the meeting of opposing elements: volcanoes pouring their molten contents into rivers and seas, fire entering water, heat transforming something cold. That fascination somehow led me back to sulphur baths and hammams: Places where the earth’s heat becomes something almost ritualistic, something you immerse yourself in.

The blue and orange here are my attempt to capture that meeting: ice and fire, water and earth, cold and heat. They aren’t really opposites in this drawing; they seem to belong to the same landscape.