Traumazied Cat

Rendered in stark black-and-white, the drawing stages a tense allegory of communication: a woman on the left exhales a long, ribboning breath that arcs across the page, only to meet the feral open mouth of a cat poised on the right like a hard, indifferent echo. Between them, a porous, stone-textured central form—part wall, part body—suggests the brittle architecture that absorbs, distorts, and sometimes silences what is offered, while patterned fields and strict vertical hatching compress space into a claustrophobic interior. The work’s graphic economy turns line into psychology, where tenderness becomes vulnerability and the act of speaking feels like sending one’s own air into a world that may bite back.