Echoes of artistic fragments from history, like El Greco's elongated figures, Botticelli's fluid fusion of gender, and Breitner's misty gray atmospheres, reverberate within these works.

It is in this ambiguous space that the Celestial Bodies series: Rapture, Throb, Portals, Pulse takes form, as it explores abstract and intangible aspects of physical representation and considers how the explicit and profane can connect to transformation and the spiritual.

The Klein Bottle paintings show the sensuous curves of a mathematical object. Simultaneously abstract and luscious, they depict a shimmering hollow glass vessel that appears to intertwine with itself. Both holding and reflecting light, merging the inner with the outer, evoking the fragility of a bubble and the mystery of a cosmic object.

A Klein bottle is a three-dimensional, vase-shaped mathematical figure that, like a three-dimensional Möbius strip, twists into itself — a paradox, since we naturally expect a surface to have two aspects: a front and a back, or an inside and an outside. It is brought as a metaphor for a perpetual cycle of change, infinitely self-sustaining and self-referential.

It alludes to celestial movements while evoking the image of a pearl necklace, serving as a metaphor that bridges the everyday with the cosmic, the minute with the immense.

The Celestial Bodies - Pulse paintings delve into the multifaceted role of the phallus in queer visual culture; its repeated depiction serves as a sex-positive assertion, reiterating the celebration of the body’s visibility and validity.

The phallus is portrayed as a broader exploration of power, desire, sexuality, identity, and transcendence; atmospheric abstractions play with levels of visibility and presence, exploring the supposed split between flesh and spirit. The dichotomy of visibility and erasure reflects the meandering experiences of self, especially within queer contexts.

The project Canonically Speaking brings the writing of Mila Lanfermeijer and the paintings of Micha Patiniott in a publication of short stories published by Kunstverein Amsterdam in February 2024. Text and images converge in pursuit of understanding identity and perception as fluid and ever-changing concepts.