The Tear 2 (Deconstructed Figures)

This composition stages a tense encounter between two hybridized figures—part animal, part machine—whose segmented bodies read like drafted blueprints made suddenly vulnerable. The palette of bruised maroons and smoky grays presses inward, while thin, surgical lines and punctured planes create a sense of dissection, as if the painting is peeling back armor to expose the anxieties housed inside. Light behaves less as illumination than as a cold diagnostic glow, picking out joints, rivets, and hollow cavities where identity should cohere, turning motion into a kind of stuttered choreography. What emerges is a quiet parable of modern existence: creatures engineered for function yet haunted by tenderness, locked in a space that feels both laboratory and dream.