The Fall

The Fall is a series of 28 paintings, each translating a verse of the poem “Pull My Daisy” —written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady— into close-ups of interior spaces : details of walls, floors, or furniture. Each work isolates part of the home—fragments of wallpaper, upholstered couch, shower, carpet—and renders it with obsessive detail, as if memory had fixed itself onto a single surface.

The title refers both to the Fall of Man and to emotional, physical, or symbolic collapse. Saturated with floral and organic motifs, the repetitive and decorative surfaces patterns are disrupted by charged elements: a blood stain, a cracked lock, a max-out thermostat. These marks suggest moments of intimacy, impulse, or desire, suspended in the aftermath of something unseen. The spaces are devoid of figures, yet deeply voyeuristic—the sensual materiality of traces lingering after the party is over.

The question of rhythm and interruption is central to both the text and its transcription into images. Just as the poem —written as an exquisite corpse— fractures syntax and logic, the paintings fracture space. The series channels the Beat Generation’s ideology : its improvisational rhythm, its craving for rupture and immediacy, suggesting how home is shaped less by order than by what cracks through it: urges, secrets. These paintings reflect how our sense of place is shaped not by the pristine whole, but by the overlooked, emotionally loaded fragments that might have disappeared, but that we carry with us—literally and psychologically. The Fall becomes an interior archaeology—of interrupted intimacies, domestic kinks, and the architecture of emotional residue.

28 paintings, 2021-2023, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches