Cityscape 35 (A World of People)

The work orchestrates a quiet spectacle of togetherness: small, densely repeated marks accumulate into a vast patterned ground, against which clusters of figures appear like islands of warmth and witness. Elevated on balconies and ledges, the crowd is both participant and observer, suggesting a community held in suspension between intimacy and anonymity. The saturated reds and ochres press forward as a theatrical backdrop, while the dark, stippled circles read as drifting lanterns or thought-bubbles—punctuating the field with moments of pause and inward reflection. In its flattened, tapestry-like space, the painting becomes a meditation on collective memory, where individual presence is simplified yet insistently counted.