Cityscape 20 (The Great Migration)

This densely tessellated city-field reads like an archive of lived moments—each small block a repeating unit of labor, dwelling, and memory—while the bands of figures along the top edge and in the suspended baskets propose community as both refuge and spectacle. A sun-washed ochre ground floods the scene with a heat that feels celebratory yet relentless, pressing the eye into the hypnotic patterning where blues and reds flicker like signals in a crowded system. The vertical yellow ladder-line cleaves the composition as a fragile promise of passage, connecting clustered “tree” orbs that punctuate the grid like brief, necessary breaths of nature within the constructed order. In its folk-inflected geometry, the work holds a quiet tension between belonging and compression, suggesting that collective life is built from repetition—but made humane by the moments of gathering that interrupt it.