| This canvas marks the beginning of Genomic Works, setting the tone for a series that explores inheritance not through likeness, but through resonance. Though titled
Queen Victoria, the figure depicted is not the monarch herself, nor meant to represent her. Instead, the portrait band features an unknown individual—an imagined ancestor whose traits, quirks, or emotional textures might echo through generations. Someone whose face you wouldn’t recognize, but whose presence might live on in subtle ways.
Alongside the portrait is a Tarot card, chosen at random. Its specific meaning is irrelevant; what matters is the gesture—the shuffle, the draw, the suggestion that genetics, like fate, is unpredictable. The shimmering vertical bands that flank these elements represent the genome itself: unreadable, abstract, and beautiful. They vary in size and chromatic logic across the series, hinting at the uniqueness of each individual’s inherited code.
The remaining bands are filled with color, pattern, and symbolic fragments—representing the spectrum of human experience. Together, these elements form a visual sequence that is less about identity and more about the invisible architectures that shape us.
Queen Victoria is not a portrait of a person, but a meditation on what it means to carry memory, randomness, and history in our bones.
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