Bull 26

This stark monochrome portrait confronts us with the buffalo’s steady gaze, a presence rendered as both monument and wound, where the fractured crown of the head reads like an opened fault line between endurance and vulnerability. Dense black planes of the body anchor the composition, while meticulous stippling and banded rings around the horns act as rhythmic inscriptions—part ornament, part restraint—turning anatomy into a coded language of ritual and survival. The surrounding white space functions less as emptiness than as silence, heightening the animal’s gravity and casting it as a solitary emblem poised between captivity and mythic sovereignty.