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CONSTRUCTED SPACES ON PAPER MY VERTEEEX MARKS SERIES PHILIPPE HALABURDA STUDIO 2025
Adaptive fragmentation
About the theme of "adaptative fragmentation"
I approached this series as a form of visual encryption, building each composition through cycles of construction, interruption, and adaptation.
The process began with intuitive mark-making using ink washes and pigment splashes, laying down emotional terrain without a fixed destination.
From there, I overlaid geometric forms cut from tape, paper,
and found materials, some sharp and systematic, others fractured
or intentionally misaligned.
The layering became a way to both conceal and reveal meaning.
I deliberately worked with high-contrast colors, acid green, neon pink,
and industrial black, alongside muted washes to create tension
between visibility and ambiguity.
Every new mark was a negotiation between order and disruption.
Throughout the making, I sat with feelings of restlessness, curiosity, resistance, and a desire to break from traditional narrative structure.
These pieces are not blueprints but scrambled transmissions, each one
a shifting “vertex” between emotion, memory, and coded gesture.
I also introduced graphic symbols, letters, numbers, arrows,
not as readable text but as abstract signals, displaced from
their original function.
These elements behave like misfired data points or ghosted coordinates, suggesting movement without fixed direction.
The repetition and doubling of forms hint at glitch aesthetics,
creating a rhythm of distortion that mirrors emotional fragmentation.
This series became less about mapping a place and more about mapping the state of being displaced, mentally, digitally, or emotionally,
where identity feels layered, unstable, yet stubbornly present.
Details of the series
SERIES OF 5 ABSTRACT COLLAGES ON PAPER
Emotion Resilience, yearning, and disorientation
Material Acrylic painting and color tapes
Medium Paper 24 x 18 inches
Date 2025
Authentification Signed and title on the back
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