"Aloe Garden" 2024

Dimensions: 40 x 60 x 2

Medium: Archival Ink on Paper

Artist: Jonas Stirner

Price: $5000

In Aloe Garden (2024), Jonas Stirner invites us into a fractured memory—one that feels lived-in, half-forgotten, and startlingly intimate. A chain-link fence slices through the foreground, as if we’re peering in from the outside, searching for something we can’t quite name. Beyond it, a London storefront dissolves into layers of wear and weather, its people blurred like ghosts in motion. Down below, aloe plants push through the image, stubborn and sharp, like resilience growing through concrete.

Stirner doesn’t just collage images—he collages time, emotion, and the feeling of being stuck between places. The work hums with Rauschenberg’s influence, but instead of loud rebellion, this piece aches with quiet observation. It’s the feeling of walking a city alone, catching glimpses of strangers, and wondering if you’ve seen them before. It’s the tenderness in decay, the beauty in what we pass by too quickly. Stirner’s process makes the personal public, turning scraps of the world into a raw, reflective mirror.