Chameleon Ii Etching Animal Drawing

Segmented into vertical panels, the lizard becomes a specimen of memory—its body fractured yet insistently continuous, as if the act of looking can never fully hold a living thing in one frame. Earthy, weathered browns and mossed greens read like a topography laid over skin, turning anatomy into landscape and suggesting time’s erosions as a kind of camouflage. The pale, clinical ground amplifies the creature’s quiet resilience, while the slight menace of its gaze and shadowed underbelly hints at survival as both vigilance and vulnerability. In this measured dissection of form, the work meditates on how observation transforms the wild into an artifact—beautiful, controlled, and faintly mournful.