Oracles

This series explores material experimentation. Materiality is central to how my world-building exercise takes shape. Encaustic wax plays a key role due to its unpredictability. Working with wax requires constant adjustment to heat, timing, and resistance. The material trains the body to respond instead of to plan, producing knowledge through action.

Pigment, metal, abrasion, and surface interventions extend this logic, placing materials under stress to observe what persists, mutates, or disappears. In this way, the studio becomes a site where knowledge is generated somatically rather than intellectually.

The grid contains the following pieces: No. 1 (X), No. 2 (Blood), No. 3 (Eye), No. 4 (Gold), No. 5 (Hand)
2025
Wax, pigment, gold foil, and oil pastel on wood
15 x 15 x 5 cm each | 15 x 135 x 5 cm installed

Artwork detail of No. 3 (Eye)

Artwork detail of No. 4 (Gold)

Oracle*
2025
Mixed media (glass, styrofoam globe, candle next to a wooden box filled with handmade sea shells, colored glass, and air-dry clay)

*Site-specific installation, part of LUX in Dhalaam.لوكس في الضلام

Sound oracle
2025
acrylic and pencil on paper
146 x 200 cm

Untitled (hands)
2025
acrylic and spray paint on paper
70 x 50 cm

The grid contains the following pieces: No. 6 (Hand-cross), No. 7 (Hand spiral blue), No. 8 (Hand blue), No. 9 (Fingers), No. 10 (Hand spiral yellow)
2025
Wax, pigment, gold foil, and oil pastel on wood
15 x 15 x 5 cm each | 15 x 135 x 5 cm installed

LAURA XENOPOL

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