Untitled 22 (Beneath the Surface)

A monumental face emerges from a storm of ultramarine and soot-black, its features carved from ash-like greys as if memory itself has been rubbed into the surface. Electric gold splatters and slashing arcs skim across the visage like errant constellations—at once celebratory and violent—suggesting the ways identity is continually annotated, interrupted, and rewritten by forces beyond the self. The composition holds a tense equilibrium between stillness and impact: a quiet, unwavering gaze anchored in the center while motion streaks around it, turning the portrait into a meditation on endurance amid noise. In this collision of control and chance, the work reads as both icon and palimpsest—human presence persisting beneath the beautiful debris of time.