Remnants of a Crown VI

For years, the Baroque wig has been one of the central symbols within Painting Queen’s visual universe. It represents power, constructed identity, artifice, and theatricality—an elaborate architecture of hair that once embodied status, authority, and representation.

In Remnants of a Crown, this symbol does not disappear; it transforms.

The series marks a new chapter in the artist’s practice. The wig is no longer depicted explicitly but begins to emerge from the very substance of the painting itself. Layers of oil paint, glazes, translucent passages, and eroded surfaces reveal images that seem to surface slowly, as though time itself had almost erased them.

The forms exist in a delicate balance between presence and absence. Figuration dissolves without ever completely disappearing, allowing each viewer to reconstruct the image through memory and imagination.

Rather than representing an object, these paintings evoke what remains once form has faded. Like fragments of an ancient fresco, a weathered sculpture, or the traces left on an old wall, the paintings become spaces where memory is preserved within the material itself.

The chromatic evolution of the series—from mineral earth tones and luminous ochres to deep blues and almost black hues—accompanies this process of transformation. Baroque aesthetics are not abandoned; they are distilled. Ornament becomes atmosphere. Volume becomes trace. Theatricality becomes silence.

Remnants of a Crown reflects on what endures when power loses its visible form. Every crown eventually disappears, yet its remnants continue to inhabit memory.

The crown has disappeared. Only its memory remains.

🎨 Oil on canvas
📏 40 × 40 cm
🖼️ 4 cm deep gallery-wrapped canvas
✔️ Ready to hang
💙 Available for purchase