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Melisa Taylor Metzger
Vestiges spectrales II (texture, organic, biophilic, sand, pastels, mix-media)

2025

$4,000
£3,012.43
€3,519.79
CA$5,667.33
A$5,692.49
CHF 3,300.67
MX$69,454.35
NOK 38,198.17
SEK 39,193.31
DKK 26,311.90

About the Item

Vestiges spectrales II is a large-scale mixed-media painting on canvas that transforms the surface into a textured terrain where the visible and invisible intermingle. Built from layers of acrylic medium, impasto, and collaged fragments—sand, shells, and found organic matter—the work oscillates between painting and low-relief sculpture. Its pastel iridescent palette, shifting between nacreous whites, seafoam greens, pale lilacs, and opaline pinks, captures the fleeting luminosity of coastal horizons and tidal memory. The embedded materials evoke sedimentary traces, as if remnants of an aqueous ecosystem have surfaced after centuries of erosion. Simultaneously delicate and tactile, the work suggests both fragility and endurance, permanence and impermanence. Vestiges spectrales II becomes a portal into the ghostly presence of nature’s cycles, a meditation on vestiges, traces, and the sublime resonance of the oceanic world. Ready-to-hang, signed at the back with clean light-blue colored painted edges.

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