The Metaphoria gallery features a series of figurative works exploring allegory, perception, and the internal dreamscape. Drawing on classical motifs and metaphysical themes, the paintings move between imaginative vision and institutional critique.
“I prefer to express myself metaphorically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning… while metaphor is an image.” –Stanley Kubrick
Nocturne
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” - Edgar Allan Poe - Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
Yaldabaoth
"What, if some day a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' - Nietzsche - Oil on Canvas 80 x 100 cm
Labyrinth
"Every labyrinth has its minotaur" - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Oil on Canvas - 80 x 100 cm *(Mod. credits: Below)
The Fates
"Man's fate is his character." - Heraclitus (Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos) - Oil on Canvas 90 x 115 cm - *(Mod. Credits: Below)
Prairie Veils
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” — Shakespeare "I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise" - Anne Bronte
Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
Plato's Cave
"Bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light.” Plato - Oil on Canvas 80cm x 100 cm
Nefarious Theatre
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci - Oil on Canvas 90 x 115 cm -
Punki Tomo No. 8
“In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or hello kitty toys.” — Ryuichi Sakamoto - Oil on canvas 90 x 115 cm
Mademoiselle Rouge
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” - Mary Shelley - Oil on Paper 57 x 76 cm *(Mod. credits: Below)
Koenji Tokyo
“Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.” -
Kentetsu Takamori -Oil on Canvas 80 x 100 cm
Aeon Sophia
"Trees are not known for their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruit."
- Eleanor of Aquitaine - Oil on canvas 72 x 90 cm
Inculcations XIX
“But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.”
- Robert Hughes - Oil on Canvas 90 x 115 cm
Lampads: Leuke & Orphne
"Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of." - Hesiod - Oil on Canvas 80 x 115 cm
*(Mod. credits: Below)
Metempsychosis: 12:25
“And I entered into the midst of their prison, which is the prison of their body.” - Apocryphon of John - Oil on Canvas 80 x 115 cm
Sibyl
“The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.”
- Aldous Huxley - Oil on Canvas 120 x 120 cm
Meliai
"Cast not pearls ... " Matthew 7:6 - Meliai—born of earth and myth. She~ in anticipation of Epinoia—the whisper of divine remembrance. - Dyptic / Oil on Canvas -115 x 170 cm
For Glory or War I – Sancta Bellum
“War does not determine who is right—only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell.
The raw linen hangs as testament—scarred, unprimed, refusing to forget. She kneels— not saint, but witness. Oil on Raw Linen (unstretched) 78 × 100 cm
For Glory or War II – Sancta Bellum
“The living will envy the dead.” — Dostoevsky.
She looks back through time, haloed not by heaven but by memory. Here is a requiem for those silenced beneath the rhetoric of glory.
Oil on Raw Linen (unstretched) 78 × 100 cm
Gleaners: For Glory
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” - Voltaire. “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” – Goya. Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
The Ritual Appetite
"The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. " - George Carlin - Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
