Untitled 122 Pen Ink Figurative Drawing

This acerbic ink cartoon stages a cramped lifeboat tableau where power, privilege, and panic collide, the figures pressed into a single wobbling vessel as if governance itself has become overcrowded and directionless. With brisk, wiry linework and minimal tonal relief, the artist weaponizes white space and choppy repeating waves to turn the sea into a mechanical rhythm of inevitability, while speech bubbles and banners puncture the air like propaganda made literal. The looming “storm warning” reads less as meteorology than as political forecast—anxieties of upheaval arriving “from the north” as the passengers clutch comforts and slogans, mistaking preparedness for control. Humor becomes the scalpel: beneath the slapstick peril is a pointed allegory of a society that insists on business-as-usual even as it drifts toward consequence.