Faces (Mughal Emperor on Elephant)

This spare, sepia-toned drawing distills the human figure into a totemic architecture of limbs and faces, where elongated planes converge like corridors toward a single, weighted point. The scattered eyes—calm, unblinking—fracture identity into multiple witnesses, suggesting a psyche that is both surveilled and inwardly divided. Soft washes and bruised shadows give the form a worn, almost archaeological tenderness, as if memory itself has stained the paper and left only the essential geometry of presence.