



A spectral visage rises from a palimpsest of charcoal scratches and inked blocks, as if identity is being assembled and erased in the same breath. The composition pivots between the tender intimacy of the face and the impersonal weight of black geometric masses, where smudged textures read like memory’s sediment and interruption. Thin veins of yellow and rust slip through the darkness as emotional fault lines—small persistences of warmth that refuse to be fully buried—while the surrounding negative space behaves like silence, framing the figure’s uneasy emergence. In this tension between mark-making and obliteration, the work becomes a meditation on selfhood under pressure: a portrait not of appearance, but of endurance.







