Untitled Charcoal Figurative Painting

Rendered in a hushed graphite palette, the composition gathers two entwined figures into a single sheltering oval, their closed eyes and interlaced hands turning intimacy into a quiet refuge. Around them, a lattice of checks and angular lines fractures the space into memory-like facets, while small house forms at the base suggest a fragile “home” assembled from touch, not architecture. To the right, mask-like faces and stacked, totemic shapes hover as social identities—public, rigid, and watchful—pressing against the tenderness at the center, as if the world’s roles can only circle what it cannot fully enter. Light is less illumination than erasure here, letting the white ground breathe through the charcoal and making the scene feel like a dream held together by longing.