Bulls (A Bovine Tapestry)

Arranged as a disciplined grid of nine intimate panels, this suite of bovine portraits turns repetition into meditation—each face nearly identical in scale, yet subtly altered by shifts in mark, shadow, and surrounding negative space. The stark monochrome palette compresses the world into essentials, where textured greys feel like worn memory and the deep black frames read as both containment and reverence, elevating the animal from subject to icon. Between the steady gaze and the graphic simplification, the work oscillates between tenderness and taxonomy, asking whether we are witnessing individuals with presence or specimens made readable by pattern and display. The central circular motif breaks the sequence like a pause in breath, hinting at landscape, cycle, or enclosure—an abstract reminder of the systems that hold these lives in place.