Untitled 7 (Tiger in the Center)

This chimera-like portrait stages a quiet tribunal of instincts: a tiger’s steady gaze is bracketed by mirror-faced fish that press inward like competing truths, while serpents curl above as if thought itself were coiling into desire and caution. The composition is rigorously symmetrical yet emotionally unstable, using the stark white ground to isolate each creature as an emblem—water, air, and land held in tense suspension around a single predatory center. Subtle tonal modeling in the feline fur contrasts with the flatter, lacquered color of the fish and parrot, suggesting a hierarchy between lived, breathing presence and the symbolic masks that crowd it. What emerges is a meditation on identity as ecosystem: the self not singular, but negotiated among appetites, omens, and inherited forms of watchfulness.