

This drawing compresses a knot of figures into a single, claustrophobic body of gesture, where contorted limbs and open mouths turn intimacy into a theatre of hunger, comfort, and unease. The palette—ashen greys, bruised ochres, and sudden blushes of red—reads like emotion leaking through skin, while the soft, abraded ground makes the scene feel half-remembered, half-confessed. Faces dissolve into one another, and the crowded negative space becomes an airless chamber, suggesting a narrative of dependence in which tenderness and domination are indistinguishable. What emerges is a fragile ecology of touch: an image of togetherness that both shelters and suffocates.