Covid 19

Set against a weathered world map that reads like an aged palimpsest of history, the composition sutures global geography to intimate crisis, as a stark hospital bed and IV apparatus hover with clinical inevitability. Ink-drawn, masked figures—rendered with ritualistic ornament yet propelled in midair—carry the weight of modern violence, their rifles cutting a dark diagonal that cleaves the paper’s warm, bruised tones. Along the bottom, a procession of iconic monuments collapses distance and culture into a single frieze, suggesting how spectacle and tourism sit uneasily beside suffering, contagion, and conflict. The work’s restrained palette and deliberate layering turn the planet into both stage and wound, asking whether our shared map is a promise of connection or a ledger of repeated emergencies.