The Exchange (Lost in Thought)

This monochrome composition stages a hybrid, almost totemic creature whose angular body is assembled from faceted planes, as if the figure were carved from shifting slabs of shadow and breath. The single, watchful eye anchors the scene with an unsettling tenderness, while the surrounding pale forms—part landscape, part architecture—press in like memory, alternately sheltering and isolating the subject. Subtle grain and tonal gradations create a quiet vibration across the surface, suggesting a psyche in motion: not quite myth, not quite animal, but an emblem of endurance negotiating an unstable inner terrain.