In this charcoal-drenched study, the animal’s body arches into a single sweeping gesture, its tail rising like a dark pennant that counters the vulnerable tilt of the head. The artist lets shadow do the narrating: smudged gradations dissolve the form into atmosphere, suggesting a creature half-emerging from memory, half-swallowed by it. Sparse lines around the paws and flank feel deliberately unfinished, turning the drawing into an intimate meditation on caution, survival, and the fragile threshold between presence and erasure.