Untitled 8

Rendered in a restrained monochrome, the work turns an animal into a quiet, emblematic landscape—its broad, weighty body becoming a ground plane punctuated by dark, crater-like marks that read as both wounds and constellations. A pale, masklike face and looping horns hover at the threshold between tenderness and unease, while the slender, flower-topped stalk rises behind like a solitary standard of hope, fragile yet insistent. The vast surrounding emptiness functions as a contemplative silence, isolating the figure as if it were a memory pinned in place. In this pared-back geometry, the piece feels less like a portrait than a meditation on endurance: life carrying its scars while still allowing a small, improbable bloom to stand upright.