Untitled 32 (The Celestial Steed)

This intricate pen-and-ink drawing turns the animal form into a living constellation, where a lion-like figure is threaded through spirals, clouded curls, and looping arcs that feel both ornamental and cosmological. The dense, unbroken linework compresses space into a continuous current, suggesting breath, wind, and thought—an inner weather that both shelters and entangles the body at its center. Scattered star emblems punctuate the turbulence like talismans, framing the creature as a guardian caught between earthly strength and an abstract, celestial order. In its monochrome restraint, the work reads as a meditation on sovereignty: power not as blunt force, but as endurance within chaos and pattern.