Beneficiary

A monumental figure sits compressed into a field of acidic green, his breath mediated by a mask that turns survival into a visible, mechanical ritual. The collage-like skin of newsprint reads as a portrait made from public language—headlines, anxieties, and economic pressures—while the bright orange shirt and striped trousers sharpen the tension between vitality and confinement. Cradled in his lap, the piggy bank is reimagined as an apparatus of gauges and valves, suggesting that even savings require oxygen in a climate of scarcity. The small, distant city icon hovers like a schematic of modern life: orderly in outline, yet emotionally remote from the body bearing its cost.