Bunkerised society
Abstract canvas art series
2024
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Contemporary Abstract Paintings:
Lingering Traces, Mapping What Remains
Abstract Canvas Art Series · 2025
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Abstract paintings exploring memory, residual marks, and emotional traces
across layered surfaces.
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Mixed media canvas works in which gestures accumulate, fade, and reappear over time.
About the Theme of Triadic Tension
This series of contemporary abstract paintings draws on the Triskele, an ancient symbol of three interlocking spirals that represent motion, cycles, and interconnected forces.
Rather than depicting the spiral literally, I translate it into geometric abstract painting through triangular structures.
These forms act as a framework for exploring triadic systems: body, mind, and environment; past, present,
and future; chaos, order, and adaptation.
But the structure is never stable.
Each abstract canvas composition is intentionally displaced, fragmented, and destabilized, interrupted by tangled yarn, ruptured tape, and collisions of color.
The work resists equilibrium.
These modern abstract paintings operate in a state of imbalance, where structure is continuously negotiated rather than resolved.
Transformation appears not as a smooth cycle,
but as a disrupted loop, where repetition carries friction,
deviation, and instability.
+ Partitioned organization in psychogeographical mapping
in contemporary abstract art
• Painted emotions: quiet tension, control, and emotional containment, self-monitoring, isolation within structure
• Series: 6 original paintings on canvas
• Date: September 2024
• Location: Philippe Halaburda studio paintings, Newburgh, NY, USA
About the theme of "bunkerised society"
The theme of "bunkerisation" is expressed through the bold juxtaposition of colors and materials, evoking the tension between security and isolation.
Green symbolizes the idea of vigilance and preparedness, often associated with military and survival tactics.
At the same time, red and yellow represent the urgency and the emotional intensity accompanying a constant state of alert.
These colors are dynamically layered with black yarn, which acts as a visual barrier or protective layer, representing the fortification of personal and
societal spaces against perceived threats.
The color palette creates a sense of confinement as if the viewer is enclosed
within an internalized bunker, constantly aware of external forces.
To further emphasize this theme, I incorporate primary-colored Lego bricks, which invoke the idea of construction and reinforcement, highlighting
the process of building psychological and physical walls.
The Lego bricks are strategically placed to form rigid, modular structures within the composition, symbolizing the manufactured nature of security systems.
Their playful and structured aesthetic contrasts with the heavier emotional tones of the color palette, reflecting the paradox of a society caught between the need for safety and the limitations imposed by constant alertness.
Through these abstract elements, I explore the psychological and societal implications of bunkerisation, where the individual is perpetually on edge, constructing internal and external barriers in response to ideological and material threats.
+ Materials & process
Materials operate as active elements within the composition.
Color tape establishes boundaries and directional shifts, yarn traces fragile connections across the surface, and wood blocks introduce weight, interruption, and architectural resistance.
Together, these materials disrupt the painted field, allowing the canvas to behave like a lived environment, layered, negotiated, and in constant motion.
5 abstract paintings on canvas
Emotion Negative and not in control, anxiety, fear
Material Color tape, black yarn, LEGO brick
Medium Stretched canvas 20 x 20 inches
Date 2024
Authentification Signed and title on the back