{"title":"Artwork","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"charred-flowers","title":"CHARRED FLOWERS","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCharred Flowers is a three-dimensional sculptural work exploring the relationship between beauty, destruction, nature, and Brutalism. The flowers physically rise from the surface of the canvas, creating depth, shadow, and movement rather than functioning simply as a painted representation of flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe work begins with recognizable organic forms associated with softness and beauty. Through charring, those forms are deliberately transformed—the surfaces become dark, irregular, imperfect, and almost architectural. Fire becomes both a destructive and creative process, stripping away conventional ideas of floral beauty while revealing new textures, edges, shadows, and forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe sculptural flowers move between black, charcoal, deep brown, cream and white, with traces of warm rust and copper emerging from the burned surfaces. The result is intentionally tactile and layered: nature reinterpreted through fire, texture, and imperfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Tiffany-blue frame creates a deliberate contradiction. Its refined, almost precious color surrounds an object that has been burned and distressed, reintroducing beauty after destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe work reflects an idea that continues throughout my practice: the intersection of organic and architectural, beautiful and brutal, refined and raw, destruction and preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nayshn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67689006858473,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/9077\/1945\/files\/CharedFlowers.jpg?v=1792071495"},{"product_id":"brutalist-lilies","title":"BRUTALIST LILIES","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBrutalist Lilies begins with one of nature’s most recognizable organic forms and asks what happens when it is reduced to architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRather than depicting lilies traditionally, I strip away their expected color, softness, and botanical detail and reconstruct them through bold black-and-white forms, geometry, line, mass, and negative space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe curves and movement of the flowers remain, but they are translated into a visual language influenced by Brutalist architecture—strong shapes, repetition, simplicity, contrast, and structural weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThat tension is central to the work. A flower is inherently temporary, delicate, and organic; architecture suggests permanence, structure, and human intervention. Bringing the two together allows the work to exist somewhere between nature and the built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe piece is part of my larger exploration of how familiar objects can be reduced to their essential forms and then rebuilt through a different design language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nayshn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67689007710441,"sku":null,"price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/9077\/1945\/files\/Lillies.jpg?v=1792071659"},{"product_id":"cross-borders","title":"CROSS BORDERS","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCross Borders is a three-part body of work examining identity, migration, cultural exchange, and the idea of boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePressed wood becomes both material and metaphor. Its raw, constructed surface references building, labor, movement, and making a place one’s own, while also connecting to my Latino heritage and my experience of identity existing across different environments and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAcross the compositions, matte white and glossy black forms intersect, overlap, and move through raw architectural structures. They refuse to remain neatly contained within individual spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThat movement is intentional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRather than presenting cultures and identities as fixed territories, Cross Borders considers what happens when boundaries become permeable—when people, ideas, histories, aesthetics, and experiences cross into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe three works function individually but become more meaningful together. The series asks whether identity must belong entirely to one place, culture, or visual language, or whether something more interesting can emerge in the space between them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nayshn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67689025765609,"sku":null,"price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/9077\/1945\/files\/INTERSECTION.jpg?v=1792071753"},{"product_id":"structure","title":"STRUCTURE","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eStructure began with my observation of a Brutalist concrete staircase. I became less interested in the staircase as an object and more interested in the visual system underneath it: geometry, mass, repetition, negative space, balance, and material severity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe architectural reference is therefore not reproduced literally. Instead, it is dismantled and reconstructed as abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe composition is built from three principal colors—white, black, and charred brown. Scraped and distressed brown surfaces create a raw, concrete-like texture, while the cleaner black-and-white geometry introduces precision and structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe contrast between those surfaces is important. One feels controlled and designed; the other feels weathered, physical, and imperfect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLike much of my work, Structure sits at the intersection of art, architecture, and design. A utilitarian architectural element becomes a study of proportion, material, texture, and negative space—removing function while retaining the visual power of the original structure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nayshn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67689029370089,"sku":null,"price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/9077\/1945\/files\/STRUCTURE.jpg?v=1792071824"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/9077\/1945\/collections\/Lilliesartwork2.jpg?v=1790804545","url":"https:\/\/nayshn.com\/collections\/artwork.oembed","provider":"Nayshn","version":"1.0","type":"link"}