Mansa (Goddess Of Fertility) (Diptych)

In this diptych, the body is rendered as a sacred diagram—part anatomy, part reliquary—where a hooded, altar-like figure opens into a red, oracular void, and the sternum and lungs read less as organs than as emblems of breath, vulnerability, and endurance. A lattice of eye-like nodes hovers above like a sentient canopy, turning the space into a watched interior landscape and pressing the scene toward ritual rather than mere depiction. The palette of blood reds, muted ochres, and bruised mauves creates a tense warmth, while the looping, corded forms bind the panels together, suggesting an unbroken circuit between desire, surveillance, and the quiet labor of survival.