



A monumental, mask-like visage emerges from a field of weathered greys, as if pressed into stone and then gently eroded by time, its symmetry both anchoring and unsettling. The dense blacks of the upper forms and the elongated central βtrunkβ create a solemn axis, while the granular white markings read like a private scriptβmemory, scar, and ornament collapsed into one. Below, three fish hover in quiet procession, their pared-down silhouettes and faint geometric scaffolding suggesting sustenance turned into symbol, a ritual offering suspended between the tangible and the mythic. The restrained palette and layered, mural-like surface invite a contemplation of ancestry and transformation, where identity is less a portrait than a palimpsest of lived and remembered signs.







