Untitled 1 Mixed-Media Figurative Painting

This work stages a chorus of faces in fractured greys, their profiles stacked like memories pressed into paper, suggesting a collective psyche where individual desire is continually interrupted by history and surveillance. The single red form—part banner, part wound—cuts through the monochrome labyrinth, turning negative space into a charged emblem of power and longing, as if a nation’s pulse has been exposed beneath the skin of private thought. Angular planes and etched textures keep the eye in restless motion, dissolving certainty into a cubist haze where identity becomes something assembled, contested, and repeatedly rewritten. In the quiet tension between the upward-tilted gaze and the crowding silhouettes, the piece speaks of yearning for clarity while being held inside an architecture of ideology.