Cling (The Burden of Desire) Pen-Ink Contemporary Drawing

Rendered in stark black and white, the drawing stages a fragile figure suspended on a jagged, stone-like mass, as if perched on the edge of a mind that can no longer find a soft landing. The background’s relentless bands of glyphs and stripes press forward like a coded noise, while the diagonal beam from the figure’s eye reads as both vision and wound—an insistence on looking that also exposes vulnerability. Around them, the animal silhouettes and fractured patterning form a tense ecology of threat and instinct, turning the scene into a quiet allegory of consciousness besieged by its own signals and shadows. The spare palette sharpens every mark into a moral contrast, making stillness feel hard-won rather than serene.