Within A Second (Diptych)

Rendered in a sepia field that reads like aged parchment, the composition stages a quiet duel of attention between a clustered bloom on the left and the reptile’s scrutinizing eye on the right. The long, taut tongue becomes a single calligraphic vector across the empty center, turning negative space into suspense and making desire—hunger, curiosity, or impulse—the true subject. Meticulous patterning in the scales contrasts with the soft, frayed petals, suggesting a meditation on how beauty is appraised, measured, and ultimately consumed by instinct.