Multistate~: drawing as perceptual load-balancer

This page started as a studio problem, not an illustration: how to hold multiple readings in the same field without collapsing them into a single,…

This page started as a studio problem, not an illustration: how to hold multiple readings in the same field without collapsing them into a single,…

Multistate~: a portrait-field made to code-switch. Charcoal/graphite/carbon ink, plus dust recovered from discarded drawings (pyrolysis → pigment → return). Faces cohere, dissolve, re-cohere; text attempts…

There is a verse in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that stays with me—a rough paraphrase goes: “For in and out, above, about, below, ’Tis…
A gaze, a body set aflame— To burn through shadow, whisper their own name, and mean it. The paint, a storm. The photograph, a ghost.…