Plaga

A meditation on mortality and memory, Plaga conjures the spectral presence of history’s darker hours. Draped in muted linen, a weathered plague doctor mask rests in silence—its long beak an echo of forgotten fears and medicinal superstitions. A single extinguished candle smolders above a brass holder, its smoke curling like lost prayers into the shadows. Beside it, a bound green journal hints at records of the past—whispers of remedy, ritual, or reckoning. With chiaroscuro depth and symbolic restraint, this still life captures the tension between survival and surrender, science and superstition, light and shadow.