Penguin Island
Medium: Graphite, ink, and digital reconstruction on archival paper
Dimensions: Variable, approx. 297 × 420 mm (A3) unless stated otherwise
Year: 2025
Edition: Limited (1/1 digital-analogue hybrids)
Tracing what the aftermath reflects in,
the body,
the hand,
and the machine.
Drawn from the artist’s unpublished novel of the same name, Penguin Island is both narrative and excavation, a crossing between text and image.
The Red Thread A study in tension — two hands, one living, one skeletal, bound by red thread. The visible anatomy of connection and decay. Medium: Graphite, ink, digital layering Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Edition: 1/1 Notes: Symbol of fate and fracture; recurring motif throughout the cycle.
Witness A quiet anatomy of intimacy — the kiss bisected by a red thread. Beneath it, a penguin stands as silent witness. Medium: Graphite, ink, digital compositing Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Edition: 1/1 Notes: Reference to Penguin Island novel; explores love and mortality.
The Singing Rock A figure stands before an obsidian mass veined with red. A portrait of grief as myth — the moment before the voice returns. Medium: Graphite, ink, AI reconstruction Dimensions: 420 × 594 mm Edition: 1/1 Notes: Introduces the mythic register of the series — matter and memory intertwined.
Evan (I) A portrait of the remembered and the mechanical — clockwork, coral, and bone fused into the architecture of loss. Medium: Graphite, ink, digital texturing Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Edition: 1/1 Notes: First visual interpretation of the character Evan.
Medium: Graphite, digital reconstruction, composite print on archival substrate Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Year: 2025 Edition: 1/1 A portrait held between stillness and fracture. Bjorn, both witness and echo, embodies the quiet violence of endurance — the human impulse to remain intact after collapse. His gaze resists narrative, yet something in the tilt of the jaw and the shadowed light suggests unfinished speech. The surrounding void hums faintly — an afterimage of friendship, rivalry, or love.
Avila at the Crossroads A fractured mask; hair tangled in red line. Mythic self rendered through breakage. Medium: Graphite, ink, digital hybrid Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Edition: 1/1 Notes: References the “crossroads” myth recurring in later works.
Evan (II): Self as Machine The portrait dissolves into cogs and bloom; the face reassembled through time. Medium: Graphite, ink, digital layering Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Edition: 1/1 Notes: Transitional work exploring identity as mechanism.
Medium: Graphite, ink, and digital reconstruction on archival pigment print Dimensions: 297 × 420 mm Year: 2025 Edition: 1/1 A portrait of resonance rather than speech. Nova stands in the quiet between sound and its echo — her mouth half-open, her hands mid-gesture, as though translating absence into vibration. The surface hums with muted light: threads of ultramarine, ivory, and static interference suggesting the unseen language between sisters. Her gaze is not performative; it listens.