

Rendered in stark monochrome, the work stages intimacy as a psychological battlefield: circular vignettes of split faces orbit above like refrains of the same encounter—desire and dread, self and other—each kiss cleaved by a hard seam of light and shadow. The reclining figure anchors the composition with voluptuous, ink-heavy weight, while smoky marbling rises behind it, turning the negative space into a turbulent atmosphere of memory and impulse. At the center, the atom-like emblem reads as a fragile attempt to rationalize what cannot be contained—an image of love dissected, repeated, and reassembled until it becomes both ritual and wound.







