Morning Alarm (Morning Awakening)

This graphite composition stages a quiet allegory of vigilance and vulnerability: a monumental rooster crowns a precarious architecture of overlapping planes, while a reclining figure below seems surrendered to the weight of sleep or fate. The disciplined hatchwork builds a dusk-like atmosphere where light becomes structural—carving windows, edges, and a small flare at the center that reads like a fragile interior lamp of consciousness. Floral motifs sealed within circular forms introduce a tender, ornamental counterpoint to the angular scaffolding, suggesting memory and fertility contained within a world of hard surfaces. The image holds in tension the domestic and the mythic, as if dawn’s promise must first pass through layers of enclosure to reach the body at rest.