Don’t Look Back is a large-scale continuous work reflecting on how the past—whether personal, artistic, or collective—can be reconfigured through gestures of creative reuse, without falling into nostalgia. The composition incorporates fragments of previous paintings, worn-out supports, erased or abstracted figurative elements, combined with non-recyclable plastic waste from daily consumption. Seemingly insignificant objects—broken toys, bottle caps, disposable containers—are integrated into the structure, offering both a subtle critique of overproduction and waste, and a symbolic reclamation of what is usually overlooked or discarded, remaining here unseen. The work also functions as a visual metaphor for psychological coping mechanisms in the face of contemporary fragility. Through the accumulation and reconfiguration of “rejected” materials, Don’t Look Back explores a form of artistic resilience—a method of facing anxiety, exhaustion, or depression by giving these states a visible, tangible structure.

Rather than offering solutions or conclusions, Don’t Look Back opens a space for reflection on how contemporary art can engage with memory, trauma, and waste—not as endpoints, but as starting points for new, more conscious and durable constructions.