Unio Mystica gathers a body of work that meditates on death not as finality but as passage. Drawing on myth and tradition, Kinoo Padlan evokes a realm where loss and transformation converge. This is a space where the soul, in its most intimate moment, returns to the infinite. The title which means “mystical union,” refers to the dissolution of the individual self as it merges with the divine. Here, the “I” fades as something unknowable takes form.
-Janine Dimaranan