Empathy 2

This pen-and-ink abstraction stages a tactile confrontation between two worlds: a porous, pebble-like field that reads as both ground and atmosphere, and a crisply faceted central form that tilts like a fractured vessel or mask caught mid-rotation. Dense crosshatching and striped shadows press against expanses of bare paper, turning light into a structural element and making negative space feel as weighty as the drawn matter itself. The scattered glyphs, arrowed marks, and small geometric interruptions operate like fragments of a private cartography—suggesting navigation through memory, where direction is implied yet never fully stable. In its uneasy balance of containment and spill, the work meditates on how order is continuously negotiated within the granular noise of lived experience.