Cat 27 (Circle of Life)

These four medallion-like panels distill animal presences into a quiet, emblematic language, where silhouette and void negotiate meaning with the economy of a seal or talisman. Warm woodgrain carries the sensation of the lived, the earthly, while the pale inlay reads as a luminous negative space—an inner radiance that both frames and erodes the forms, as if memory were carving them from within. Each circle holds a different rhythm—curving horns, angular crowns, flowing fins—suggesting a taxonomy not of biology but of archetypes, where instinct, sovereignty, and migration become pictographic. The repeated round format lends the set a ceremonial cadence, inviting the viewer to read the series as a cycle of guardians or seasons rather than isolated creatures.