Untitled 23 (The Fish Tree)

This meticulous ink drawing unfurls like a palm crown caught mid-breath, its fronds radiating from a tight central vortex to create a disciplined, hypnotic sense of expansion. Repetition of fine parallel lines and scalloped textures turns the canopy into a study of rhythm—an architecture of growth where each segment reads as both feathered leaf and scaled, living skin. The stark white ground becomes an active silence, amplifying the contrast between controlled structure and organic flourish, as if the work meditates on how abundance is built from patient, incremental marks. Beneath the exuberant spread, the trunk’s vertical striations anchor the composition in calm resolve, suggesting stability as the precondition for reaching outward.