Addiction 3 (Faces of the Globe)

This work reads like a bureaucratic relic turned reliquary: a muted map and ledger grid becomes the ground upon which repeated, ink-dark faces are stamped, each one partially veiled by dangling threads that resemble both sutures and lifelines. The composition’s strict, archival order is quietly sabotaged by these tactile interruptions, where stitching and smudged portraiture suggest identity caught between documentation and erasure, movement and containment. Pale blues and greys hold the atmosphere of official paper, while the dense blacks of the heads gather into a chorus of displaced presences—figures indexed, counted, and yet insistently human. In the tension between cartographic space and intimate visage, the piece proposes a meditation on migration, surveillance, and the fragile dignity that persists inside systems designed to reduce lives to data.