Mundus Transfiguratus
Towards a Queer Ecological Mythology
Mundus Transfiguratus depicts an alternate mythological world where queer transmogrified beings take centre stage and challenge the established perception of human supremacy. This experimental counter narrative interweaves fiction and reality, legend and biography. It explores themes of conflict, displacement and trauma, while also celebrating hope, love, and the resilience of those who overcome adversity.
- Painting -
Scenes from The House of Oretta
The Crossing
When two parallel universes intertwine they generate an encounter between creator and created.
Landscape Divinations
These conceptual paintings were born out of the symbiotic relationship between Brightwyna and their natural environment. In a performative dendromancy ritual, Brightwyna enters a trance state, drawing forth visions from the land itself. Using bark, leaves, petals, lichen, and sap, they scatter organic matter onto raw canvas. The materials fall, forming patterns that answer the questions Brightwyna dares to ask.
Haruspical Paintings
Haruspical Paintings draw their inspiration from the ancient practice of divination through entrails, where hidden knowledge was once sought in the bodies of sacrificed animals. In these works, semi-figurative forms unfold into mythical beings imagined from the viscera of possibility. They carve out their own space within Mundus Transfiguratus, asking us to imagine a place where otherness can appear and endure. As a remembrance of the animals once offered, they become portals into this new mythology, where sacrifice gives way to creation, and where unfamiliar life-forms can co-exist.
The Crossing: Urgebatur Oraculis
As worlds converge, the creator is immersed in visions from the universe he has created.
