Untitled 8 (Man and Dog)

This work stages an uneasy intimacy between a feline sentinel and a woman’s masklike visage, their profiles pressed into adjacent panels as if separated by thin, theatrical partitions. The palette—acid yellows, scorched oranges, and heavy blacks—turns light into a kind of heat, flattening the space while intensifying the psychological charge of the encounter. Striped and patterned fields behave like curtains or cages, suggesting domestic décor that doubles as confinement, where the animal’s alert posture and the sitter’s distant gaze become two languages of vigilance. In this compressed arena, portraiture slips toward allegory: instinct and self-presentation negotiate a fragile truce under the glare of staged illumination.