Lucas Fernando Rubly’s (b. 1991, São Paulo, BR) muted paintings consider the collapse of ecological and sociological systems, with Brazil’s acute environmental and post-colonial disintegration shaping his vision. Blending analog and digital media as source material, he uses AI to transform VHS fragments, archival materials, and personal images into painterly vignettes — evocations of memory filtered through the instability of the present. His haunting landscapes and fragmentations, featuring abandoned dwellings, crumbling sandcastles, and fragile botanicals, explore the slippage of personal and collective memory in an era of vanishing ecologies and fractured traditions. In some ways, his paintings can be seen as a resistence to haste, monumentalism and erasure.