Overlap (Inner Reflection)

Rendered in soot-black strokes and rubbed greys, the figure is constructed like a worn monument—part body, part architecture—its segmented planes and hard edges turning flesh into a cubist scaffold. The heavy crosshatching compresses light into narrow channels, suggesting an inner pressure that can’t fully surface, while the oversized hands and cinched garment read as both protection and restraint. Suspended against a bare, weathered ground with faint linear “wires,” the body feels displayed and contained, as if identity is being hung up, measured, and judged. What remains is a tense poise between vulnerability and defiance, a portrait of endurance drawn in abrasion rather than polish.