This series explores how fracture, memory, and pattern shape both the material and human world. If Elemento uncovered crystalline interiors and Saudades Grip translated fracture into colour and liminal space, then Alira turns toward the terrain of memory and place.

The series takes its name from a personal and cultural resonance — Alira as both a given name and an evocation of something elusive, half-remembered. Here, landscapes are re-imagined through texture, atmosphere, and abstraction. Rather than representing place directly, the works operate as thresholds: images that hover between presence and disappearance, between the material world and the psychic trace it leaves behind.

Within my wider oeuvre, Alira marks a shift from the mineral to the atmospheric — from the interior of stone to the weathered surface of memory. The work resonates with traditions of landscape and abstraction, yet reframes them through a language of fracture, longing, and liminality. In today’s unsettled world, Alira asks how memory might anchor us while also allowing for drift, transformation, and becoming.