City 7 (A Village Within)

This work assembles a precarious village of boxlike dwellings into a single, towering organism, where staggered roofs and clipped facades stack like memories compressed into architecture. The palette of soot, rust, and weathered ochre—etched with nervous hatch marks—suggests surfaces worn by time, as if each wall has been repeatedly handled, repaired, and re-inhabited. Anchored by a dark, trunklike base, the settlement reads as both refuge and burden: community rising upward in quiet defiance, yet hovering on the edge of collapse. Small apertures punctuate the mass like guarded eyes, turning domestic space into a meditation on shelter, density, and the fragile intimacy of living too close.