

This work stages a quiet dialogue between a mask-like, iconographic face and a bowed animal form, as if consciousness and instinct share the same charged field. The crowned visage—anchored by a vermilion third eye and lips—holds a frontal stillness, while the creature on the right dissolves into looping, calligraphic lines and leaf-like motifs, suggesting nature’s restless circulation against human composure. Earthy ochres and greens, scraped and layered with palimpsest textures, evoke timeworn walls where devotion, memory, and graffiti coexist. The composition feels like a contemporary fresco: part talisman, part urban myth, inviting the viewer to read identity not as a fixed portrait but as a living, intertwined ecosystem.