Untitled 7 (Monkey Business)

A pair of mandrill-headed figures balances in mirrored poise atop a single wheel, their patterned bodies like living textiles that stitch identity, ritual, and play into one impossible acrobatic duet. The sugary pink field of repeating leaves and floating forms turns the scene into a decorative dreamscape, yet the tight symmetry and crisp contours hold it in a ceremonial stillness, as if whimsy were a mask for discipline. Small “windows” embedded in their torsos—miniature rooms and threshold-like arches—suggest interior lives carried within the spectacle, while the line of watchful monkeys below reads as both audience and ancestry, grounding the fantasy in communal memory. Suspended between carnival and myth, the work meditates on balance: between self and other, surface ornament and hidden narrative, motion and the quiet weight of belonging.