Untitled 1 (Inner Sanctum) Printmaking Contemporary Printmaking

A solitary, rendered body emerges from a labyrinth of black incisions, its pale, striated surface caught against a field of ochre that reads like both stained light and scorched memory. The composition presses the figure forward yet tangles it in a web of grids, faces, and circular emblems—suggesting identity as something negotiated between private flesh and the crowding chorus of ancestral or societal witnesses. The violent elegance of the linework turns shadow into structure, making the surrounding darkness feel less like absence than a living architecture that both contains and defines the self. In this suspended posture, the figure seems to drift between vulnerability and defiance, as if survival itself were a delicate act of balance within an insistent, patterned world.