The Nest series begins with Dudek’s reflections on historic amphitheaters and stadiums, spaces where he first discovered community and a sense of belonging. These images gradually give way to abstractions that weave together landscapes, figures, and memories from his youth, translating the rigor and narrative layering of his two decades of mixed-media collage into a painterly language of extraordinary subtlety and immediacy.

Nest II stands out within the series. Dudek repainted the surface so many times that the stadium beneath dissolves entirely, giving way to a swirl of forms and colors—snakes twisting through the composition, figures swept up in the pulse of youth, adrenaline, and chaos. First shown as part of his Café Cobra project, the work carries the energy of communal experience while transforming personal history into a visual rhythm that is both immersive and elemental, where abstraction and lived narrative converge and reverberate.