Lascaux (15,000 Years Later) is a contemporary reflection on the fundamental human impulse to create, drawing direct inspiration from the Lascaux Cave Paintings, which date back approximately 15,000 years. Just as early humans used pigment and stone to record their world, this work explores gesture, repetition, and abstraction as a means of raw, instinctive expression in the digital age.
Composed of 15,000 individual portraits, the piece was developed through an intensive, process-driven approach that prioritizes immediacy, emotional resonance, and formal economy. Each portrait is reduced to its essential elements, capturing fleeting expressions in a minimal yet impactful manner. Some figures appear skeletal, others distorted or obscured, evoking themes of mortality, identity, and transformation.
This process reflects the gradual evolution of artistic expression, allowing forms and ideas to emerge organically over time. The final composition serves as a digital cave wall, an immense accumulation of faces that, when viewed as a whole, shifts between order and chaos, individuality and collectivity.
Much like the Lascaux caves, which stand as a record of early human perception, ritual, and memory, Lascaux (15,000 Years Later) presents a contemporary archaeology of expression, capturing the enduring need to create, document, and bear witness.