Untitled 10 (The Formidable Goddess)

This stylized deity-like figure sits in a poised stillness, yet the composition bristles with multiplicity—layered profiles and branching arms suggesting a mind that holds several perspectives at once. Bold, flat fields of crimson, green, and umber collide against the white ground, turning the body into an emblem where identity feels constructed through vivid contrasts rather than modeled realism. The diagonal staff slices across the figure like a moral axis, while the ritual objects and floral forms read as both offerings and instruments—signs of power that can nurture or command. In its graphic clarity, the work becomes a meditation on sovereignty: the self as a ceremonial architecture, calmly centered amid its own competing forces.