Empathy 4

This dense monochrome drawing constructs a face as if it were a broadcast signal—layered with scanlines, coded margins, and drifting symbols that suggest a life mediated by screens and surveillance. The central visage holds a guarded calm, yet its features are intermittently interrupted by patterned bands and floating lips, turning identity into a collage of fragments—heard, repeated, and reassembled. Tight crosshatching and obsessive mark-making compress the space, creating a claustrophobic intimacy where the background’s visual “noise” becomes a psychological weather system. In this field of interference, the portrait reads less as likeness than as testimony: a self negotiated between private interiority and the relentless syntax of information.