Self Still Life 2

This portrait stages the figure as both witness and specimen, a face held in tense stillness while a field of orange-black orbs swarms behind and across the skin like drifting spores or unblinking eyes. The cool, milky ground pushes the head forward, yet the repeated dots fracture any sense of stable identity, suggesting the self as something permeable—marked by contagion, attention, or memory that refuses to settle. With its raw linework and granular patterning, the work turns the simple bust into a psychological arena where vulnerability and endurance share the same surface.