CAVAE SCUTUM Series

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Cavae Scutum — from Latin, “hollow shield” — examines the tension between protection and exposure, preservation and vulnerability.

The series evokes the symbolic act of building a defense while revealing what lies beneath the surface.

These works combine plaster, black pigment, and raw texture to construct a material language that is both sacred and dissective. The paintings resemble remnants of ritual: fragments of shields, wounds, and silence.

They are archaeological echoes of contemporary fear — gestures that search for shelter in a disintegrating world.

In Cavae Scutum, the shield becomes paradoxical: an image of survival and a record of fragility.

Each painting functions as a relic of resistance — a poetic structure that protects even as it exposes.