Animism

This sepia-toned diptych proposes a fragile cosmology where bodies and habitats are interchangeable: the fish becomes an ark of seeds, shells, and quiet proliferations, while below, a human profile emerges from a crowded, womb-like cavern of limbs and faces. The meticulous, etched textures—scales, carapaces, and botanical filigree—compress time into a single sedimented field, suggesting memory as an ecosystem that both nourishes and entraps. Light is withheld rather than granted, so that illumination feels archaeological, as if the viewer is excavating consciousness from organic strata. Between the two forms runs a hushed narrative of metamorphosis: survival as accumulation, and identity as something assembled from the many lives we carry.