The Buffalo

The Buffalo (2026) is a central piece in the Stories series, serving as a physical crossroads of the artist’s personal geography and global history. The foundation of the work is a vintage Bohemian crystal tray, discovered at the Naschmarkt in Vienna, whose structured, geometric elegance contrasts with the rugged form of a buffalo figurine sourced from Els Encants in Barcelona.

By uniting these disparate elements from different European cities and paths of life, the artist breathes a collective "new story" into once-forgotten objects. However, the narrative is one of tension: the buffalo is staged amidst a series of polished black glass dots. These dark, rhythmic orbs symbolize the relentless advance of the railway systems across the American Great Plains: a technological marvel that simultaneously signaled the destruction of the buffalo's natural habitat and the end of an era.

The transparency of the glass tray allows light to pass through the amber and blue resins, suggesting a landscape caught between the clarity of the past and the murky intrusion of "progress." It is a study of how disparate fragments of the world can be reassembled to critique the very systems that moved them.