Winner Pen Surrealist Drawing

Rendered in austere monochrome, the city’s rigid towers loom like indifferent sentinels while a bodily, tree-like scaffold suspends fractured icons—most strikingly a reclining Statue of Liberty—suggesting ideals exhausted and left to sag under their own weight. The central figure, fused to a stump and straining upward, reads as both survivor and root system: a human insistence on life trapped within a severed ecology, where growth becomes contortion rather than ascent. Around this precarious architecture, birds, bombs, and marching soldiers create a quiet theater of threat, turning negative space into a charged atmosphere where modern progress feels less like promise than a surveillance of the vulnerable. The fine, obsessive linework makes the scene tremble between dream and indictment, as if the drawing itself were trying to hold together a world already coming unstitched.