Bull 25 Pen Animals Drawing

A monumental bovine visage emerges from a field of near-absolute black, its mass rendered as both presence and void, while the surrounding whiteness behaves like silence pressed up against a living body. Intricate, almost cartographic patterning in the ears, muzzle, and crown interrupts the brute solidity, suggesting an interior world—memory, instinct, or inherited terrain—mapped onto the animal’s surface. The direct, unblinking gaze holds the viewer in a tense reciprocity: tenderness and power cohabit, as if the work asks whether we see a creature, a symbol of sustenance, or a mirror of our own dominion. Decorative fragments drifting at the periphery read like encroaching culture, framing the bull as an icon caught between wild sovereignty and human inscription.