Untitled 4 (Uncertain Offering)

Suspended within a diamond-shaped field, the image stages a quiet pageant of power where the animal body becomes both vessel and battleground—bearing pennants like borrowed honor while a crowned skull presides from a frail throne. The muted greens and bruised earth tones dissolve the horizon into a fog of unease, making the scene feel excavated from memory rather than observed in life. Below, the oversized blade and empty dish read as twin instruments of appetite and judgment, suggesting a ritual economy in which sovereignty, hunger, and sacrifice continually exchange masks. In this compressed theatre of symbols, authority appears at once ceremonial and precarious, its glow unable to soften the stark intimacy of impending consumption.