Concept & Research: A Morphological Study of Passing Time
Featured at: MOBU International Art Fair 2025 | Soulscapes 3rd Edition–Centrul de Cultura Palatele Brancovenesti de la Portile Bucurestiului, Palace Groundfloor Gallery Mogoșoaia (2024)
petal + seed + fruit as symbols of passing time
“Architecture of Time” is a featured series by Roxana Donaldson that explores the convergence of primary organic forms with the rigor of temporal construction. Working from the premise that memory is a chaotic beast, the project examines the biological stages of petal, seed, and fruit as symbols of passing time. Debuting at the “Soulscapes” exhibition curated by Diana Roman (Mogosoaia, 2024) and featured at MOBU 2025 International Art Fair, each unit serves as a tactile archive of duration, transforming wood and linen into a poetic and forensic record of metamorphosis in a dialogue between humanity and nature through the abstraction of form.
73×73 cm, mixed media on recycled cotton bed sheet, 2024, framed
“Memory is a chaotic beast; my work is the architecture that attempts to contain its fragments.” — Log_05.2025
Exhibited at:
|- MOBU Art Fair, Bucharest, 2025
|- Soulscape International Contemporary Art Ed II Group Exhibition, Ground Floor Palace Gallery, Brancovan Mogosoaia Palaces (2024)
UNIT:
Roxana Donaldson, the Cycle |The Architecture of Time Series
MEDIUM: Acrylic, enamel, and ink on loose linen cloth |
SIZE : 73x73cm |
A series of four works…
A series of four works painted on wood and fine linen cloth, in which the biological stages of petal, seed, and fruit are intertwined with the symbol of passing time.”
The research explores, through the paintings, the convergence of primary organic forms with the rigor of temporal construction. Each unit serves as a witness to metamorphosis, transforming the materiality of linen and linden wood into a tactile archive of duration.
The Series: Petals, Seeds, and Fruits as Tactile Archives
roxana DONALDSON 