About this work

This painting began with a question: what remains of a sea that no longer exists? The Pannonian Sea once covered large parts of Central Europe, shaping the land that is now fields, towns, and sunflower-covered plains. I imagined that somewhere beneath the soil, the memory of that ancient water still moves—like a silent creature drifting through time.

The fish-like form in the painting is not meant to be a realistic animal, but a spirit of the old sea.