Face 12 (Carnival Spirit)

This textile visage, built from crocheted stitch-work and clustered rosettes, turns portraiture into a tactile archaeology of identity—less a fixed face than a terrain patiently assembled. The single, lucid eye anchors the composition like a witness, while the riot of concentric circles blooms across the surface as if memories and voices have been appliquéd into skin. Warm ochres and saturated jewel tones create a pulse between intimacy and spectacle, suggesting a self that is both protected by ornament and made newly vulnerable through exposure. In its soft materiality, the work quietly subverts the authority of the mask: it does not conceal, but narrates.