This series follows the conceptual lineage of Ed Ruscha ("Various Small Fires"), Bruce Nauman ("Burning Small Fires"), and Jonathan Monk ("Small Fires Burning"). Mesaros adds a new chapter where burned objects are no longer books or films but symbols: tarot card ("Repentance"), madeleine ("Reminiscence"), die ("Conjuration"). Each photograph condenses a cultural reference—cartomancy, Proust, Mallarmé—and proposes reflection on the link between image, memory, and destiny. Fire acts as revealer: it draws as much as it erases. This visual ritual makes the burned a metaphor for interior drawing and creative act.

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