Untitled 3 (Ancestral Watchers)

A clustered assembly of carved wooden visages rises like a compressed city of ancestors, each elongated face rendered with spare, mask-like features that oscillate between individuality and collective chant. The warm, scorched patina and pale highlights turn the grooves into channels of breath and memory, while the stacked, architectural rhythm suggests a community held together by ritual more than by mortar. At the center, a dark band cinches the vertical bodies into a single organism, implying both protection and constraint—an emblem of how belonging can shelter the self even as it asks for surrender.