Work in progress · 2026

New study

Gold as
nervous system.
Earth as skin.

Bodies dissolving into ground. Ground holding bodies. A new body of work that asks what it means to belong — to a place, to one another, to the earth beneath us.

This series began as an investigation into the threshold between form and formlessness — where a figure ends and where something larger begins.

Deep sienna grounds. Gold drawn like nerve endings, like root systems, like the invisible lines that connect one person to the next.

These images are from the studio — raw, in-progress, alive.

Canvas on easel — gold figures on sienna
The gatheringAcrylic & gold · in progress
Figure dissolving in sienna ground with gold lines
Dissolving formAcrylic & gold · in progress
Hand drawing gold lines on canvas
Drawing the signalGold on acrylic ground
Studio floor — multiple canvases
The whole body of workStudio overview
Gold lines on painted dress form
Nervous systemGold on cloth · wearable study
Studio — early ground layers, figures emerging
The ground, first Early study · acrylic on canvas · 2026

The new works begin with the body — not the body as subject, but the body as a question.

What dissolves when we come together? What hardens? The gold lines are not decoration. They are the connective tissue — the thing that holds people inside a community even when their edges are blurring.

Imperfection held with warmth. The crack is part of the form.

This body of work deepens a practice that has always moved between the individual and the collective.

Earth tones drawn from Cape Town clay, Karoo stone, the ochres of the Cape Flats at golden hour. Gold not as luxury — as signal. A nervous system made visible. A community mapped in light.

Available for studio viewings by appointment. New works released progressively through 2026.

2025–26New study
OriginalWorks on canvas
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Ana Kuni painting gold lines on fabric dress form