Robert Afford - Berlin Dairy 24.5 x 36.25

Berlin Diary by Robert Offord is a striking mixed-media architectural abstraction that blends collage aesthetics, sharp geometric forms, and expressive painted textures. The composition centers around a towering vertical structure capped with a sharp golden pyramid, flanked by gestural clouds of lavender, smoke, and scattered starlight or nocturnal city lights. Offord constructs the urban landscape through layered horizontal and vertical planes—rendered in deep russet, cobalt blue, slate grey, and muted earth tones—juxtaposed against torn, deckled paper edges that give the work an assemblage feel. Balancing rigid modernist structure with atmospheric depth, this piece evokes the layered history, architectural tension, and mood of a divided, nocturnal cityscape.