My Village 2 (The Guardian of Dreams)

In this spare monochrome tableau, rounded, shelter-like forms press inward to create a private cosmos where a single radiant “eye” of light becomes both beacon and witness. The surface is mottled and scratched like weathered stone, and the repeated seed-or-tear motifs read as a quiet accumulation of memory—tiny marks of time embedded in the body of the scene. A cat curls at the base as a grounded counterweight to the hovering, dreamlike architecture above, turning domestic familiarity into an emblem of guardianship and unease. The composition feels simultaneously protective and claustrophobic, suggesting intimacy as a kind of enclosure where tenderness and vigilance coexist.