Untitled 13 (The Ascent of Consciousness)

This monochrome composition stages a quiet cosmology of signs—triangles, stripes, and seed-like ovals—suspended in a mist of layered washes that alternately conceal and reveal. The central, totemic form rises like a ritual instrument or guardian figure, its rhythmic bands pulling the eye upward while the surrounding motifs echo like distant mountains or encoded warnings. Soft, clouded gradations of gray temper the stark geometry, suggesting a mind negotiating between order and obscurity, certainty and dream. The scattered marks and faint script read as traces of memory—notations from an inner landscape where meaning is sensed before it is fully spoken.