72″ x 60″
2025
Mixed media on canvas
Marc of the Wooden Soldier by RETNA is a bold contemporary artwork that merges street art, sacred symbolism, and military precision. This 2025 painting features RETNA’s signature calligraphic script rendered in enamel and crystalline textures, creating a surface that gleams with metallic sharpness and visual depth. Vertical bands of glyphs form a rigid structure across the canvas, evoking the order and resilience suggested by the title.
Drawing from ancient scripts, graffiti traditions, and spiritual design elements, RETNA creates a visual language that is intentionally unreadable but deeply evocative. The crystalline finish adds a ceremonial quality, transforming each mark into a relic—part artifact, part armor. The rigid symmetry and material richness lend the piece a duality: it feels both historical and futuristic, fragile and forceful.
Marc of the Wooden Soldier is ideal for collectors of urban abstract art, military-inspired conceptual works, or mixed media paintings with visual symbolism. RETNA delivers a piece that is both sculptural and painterly—script as structure, language as strength.