GENISYS

In Genisys, ripe peaches, plums, a single strawberry, and scattered leaves rest on a white-draped table, glowing with hyperreal clarity. Created as Damen Oosthuizen’s first oil painting, the work presents its fruit with surprising confidence: droplets cling to their skins like relics of a recent birth, as if these forms have only just entered perception.

The title - a deliberate reworking of Genesis - signals a beginning not only of fruit, but of awareness. The fruit feel like archetypes of life: soft, vulnerable, and pulsing with unseen energy. Behind them, darkness functions as a generative void, a space from which form emerges into order and light.

Though the painting begins from a generated digital image, its significance lies in its translation. Through slow, traditional brushwork, the artist re-grounds a synthetic vision into something lasting and embodied. Near-symmetrical droplets, a careful fold of cloth, and a ceremonial arrangement speak to design as quiet ritual.

Genisys sits between tradition and technology, emergence and authorship - a contemplative debut that asks where images come from, and how we choose to give them form.