

This monochrome abstraction stages a figure-like presence that appears and dissolves at once, as if memory is trying to assemble a body from fragments of gesture. Dense black strokes loop and collide over pale ground, while greys settle like quiet afterimages, creating a push–pull between assertion and erasure. The composition reads as a palimpsest of decisions—marks dragged, blotted, and rewritten—suggesting identity not as a fixed portrait but as a continual negotiation between impulse, restraint, and the residue of what has been overwritten.