Under Surveillance 1 (Watching Over)

A raptor’s head erupts from a circular cartographic grid, as if instinct itself is breaking through the measured geometry of systems that claim to “map” the world. The warm rust-red stains and ink-like drips read like both warning flare and wound, while cooler blues within the compass-like ring suggest an impersonal, bureaucratic calm that the bird’s fierce eye refuses to accept. Handwritten text hovering above the sphere turns the composition into an accusation—surveillance becomes a weather of control—yet the animal’s forward thrust preserves a stubborn residue of agency, sharpened against the sterile precision of the chart.