Untitled 4 (Layers of Time)

This work stages a humble domestic icon—the iron—as a monumental silhouette, its heavy, dark mass hovering like a tool-turned-totem against a fractured ground of painterly marks. The compressed palette and scorched blacks suggest heat, pressure, and the residue of labor, while the splintered planes of blue, ochre, and white read like memories of cloth, rooms, and routines broken into abstraction. By enlarging and isolating the object, the artist elevates everyday work into an emblem of endurance, where the act of smoothing becomes inseparable from the violence of flattening and the quiet dignity of repair. The tension between sleek contour and messy underpainting keeps the image vibrating—half still-life, half psychological imprint.