Untitled 85 (Abstract Reclining Nude)

This painting stages a prone figure as a fragile seam between two worlds: the warm ochres of flesh and the bruised mauves of the surrounding plane, each pressing against the other in tense equilibrium. Heavy, charcoal-like contours fracture the body and background into architectural slabs, turning repose into something negotiated—an intimate act held in place by structure. The light is not naturalistic but earned through scumbled whites and abrupt highlights, suggesting a psyche surfacing through layers of fatigue, memory, and self-protection. In its compressed space and deliberately rough handling, the work reads as a quiet testimony to endurance—where vulnerability becomes a form of geometry.