Happy Birthday (Caution: Do Not Operate the Mixer)

Rendered in stark black and white, the work stages a quiet collision between the organic and the engineered: a mask-like, near-blank face floats as an emblem of interior stillness while the concentric “caution” disc spins beside it like a bureaucratic halo of warning. The composition is stitched together with rhythmic bands and ink spills—measured linework interrupted by stains—suggesting how orderly systems fracture under the pressure of the subconscious and the accidental. In this suspended landscape of symbols, the viewer reads a narrative of vigilance and vulnerability, where innocence is not lost so much as monitored, and the psyche becomes a terrain mapped by alerts, limits, and unspoken desires.