Incessant (A Delicate Balance) Pen Contemporary Drawing

Rendered in meticulous black-and-white line, the work stages a surreal tribunal of value: a tiny procession of vehicles becomes the beam of a scale, while a disembodied hand steadies the measure as if arbiting what society chooses to count. On one side, an organic cascade spills from a flowerlike vessel into a teeming bowl, countered by another basin of clustered forms—an uneasy balance between abundance and accumulation. At the right, a looming fork planted in a field of scattered detritus reads like a monument to consumption, suggesting that the promise of plenty is inseparable from the waste it leaves behind, and that our measures of progress are built from both harvest and discard.