Artwork title : Head

Even though sculpture and assemblage have been my primary means of expression drawing and collage has played a vital role in my artistic production grounded in the investigation of how the human figure can be materially embodied through expressionistic process-driven means. My drawings are shaped both by my intentional mark making, collage construction, and the chemical contingencies of the ink materials employed.  The head is formed through burning, staining, pigment application, and chemical reactions of ink dispersal to create an interplay between intention and accident. The paper edges are scorched to create transitions of mottled color fields that function as both drawing and erosion. The burns add a sculptural dimension transforming the drawing into something tactile and wounded where color, becomes muted by its coexistence with the burnt textures, creating an uneasy harmony between liveliness and decay. The collage construction reinforces this physicality, suggesting the head s pieced together or repaired. The palette is dominated by purples and black-brown char marks, producing a tension between color and the effects of destruction. The head is oval and asymmetrical, formed from overlapping, cut-paper shapes. Throughout the surface, textures shift from powdery pigment blooms to concentrated burns, creating a visual language of attrition, dissolution, and ghostly emergence. The white background isolates the figure heightening its sense of vulnerability and making the layered fragments appear suspended in a spatial field. The head evokes the language of a portrait while simultaneously undermining it. Its facial features are reduced to suggestions, voids, and traces creating a spectral presence