Bull 27

Rendered in a disciplined monochrome, the animal’s head emerges as both portrait and topography—its hide built from obsessive micro-patterns that turn flesh into a living landscape. The bold, lacquered darkness of the horns and muzzle anchors the composition, while the surrounding negative space behaves like silence, giving the figure an iconic, almost ceremonial gravity. Ornamental motifs drift above and along the margins like fragments of memory or protective talismans, suggesting a tension between domestication and the untamable dignity of the wild. In this interplay of texture and void, the work reads as a meditation on endurance—how identity is layered, coded, and carried on the surface.