Untitled 4 (Man and Ram)

Split into two stark panels, the work stages a quiet allegory of captivity: a bruised, shadow-sheathed face on the left meets the mute endurance of a lamb on the right, both rendered in anxious, scratch-like marks that feel less like shading than scar tissue. The harsh chiaroscuro compresses space into a psychological enclosure, where the void presses in and the figures’ pale surfaces read as exposed nerve. By pairing human grief with animal innocence against a suggestion of fencing, the piece turns portraiture into indictment—asking how suffering is normalized, watched, and contained.