Amit (Diptych)

This diptych transforms the chess king into a sentient totem, its cubist profile split between embered reds and nocturnal blues, as though opposing inner climates were forced into dialogue. The checkerboard grounds and drifting pawns read like thoughts unmoored from strategy—pieces of will and doubt orbiting a rigid, upright authority. Sharp triangles and tilted planes fracture the faces into masks, suggesting that power is less a certainty than a constructed angle of vision, continually recalibrated by the game’s invisible pressures. Across the two panels, the composition stages a quiet confrontation between impulse and restraint, where identity becomes the board on which consequence is played.