Early one morning, I found the lifeless body of a newborn pigeon on my terrace. The fragility of its tiny, still wet body, the wings not even developed - it moved me deeply. Presumably, the youngster had been taken from its nest by a magpie before it could ever touch the sky.

Rather than let this fragile life disappear anonymously, I decided to immortalise the little pigeon. Through photography and digital editing, I transformed it into a series of artworks, in which its brief existence takes on new meaning. Each work is a digital flower, built from the pigeon's shapes and structures, as a tribute to the flight it never got to make.

The art form in which these works were created is at the intersection of digital collage and symbolic surrealism. By repeating, mirroring and distorting the original image, a visual mandala is created: a symbol of infinity, of life, death and rebirth. The soft colours and organic patterns reflect both the fragility and beauty of a lost life.

This series invites the viewer to reflect on impermanence, but also on the comforting thought that even the briefest existence can leave traces - in memory, in art, in beauty.

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