Addiction 5 (Ethereal Forms)

A rosé-ochre grid anchors the surface like a plan of memory, its ruled squares simultaneously containing and eroding the scattered figures that drift across them. Veils of rubbed pigment and scratched lines create a palimpsest effect, where glimpses of bodies, birds, and faces appear as fleeting impressions rather than fixed narratives, as if time itself has been pressed into the paper and partially lifted away. The warmth of the red structure suggests both shelter and constraint, while the intermittent cool blues and amber silhouettes puncture the field with moments of breath—small resistances against an overwhelming, cumulative atmosphere of lived experience. In this tension between order and dissolution, the work reads as a meditation on how identity persists in fragments, mapped yet never fully contained.