There Was A Time (The Double Persona)

Set against a radiant saffron field, the figure reads like a totem of identity—part animal mask, part formal portrait—where symmetry becomes both armor and invitation. The stark black-and-white head cleaves the composition into mirrored halves, while the cool blue “hands” flare outward as if language itself has been exaggerated into gesture, hovering between greeting and refusal. Red accents—polka dots and small notches of color—punctuate the calm planes like pulses, suggesting an inner heat beneath the graphic stillness. The work’s deliberate flatness turns costume into psyche, proposing that persona is a carefully painted surface that nonetheless leaks emotion at the edges.