The Distance between Who I Was and Am
40 W × 48 H × 3 D cm

In this poignant relief print, the artist presents a figure caught between the delicate beauty of external patterns and the dense, textured reality of internal thought. The composition is split into two distinct zones: a crown of intricate floral lace in deep madder red and a stark, black void that isolates the central figure.

The face and hand are rendered with an obsessive level of detail, using varying weights of white-on-black lines to create a topographic map of human experience. This intense hatching gives the subject a weathered, almost architectural quality, contrasting sharply with the ethereal, web-like background. The figure's hand, raised to the chin in a gesture of contemplation or silence, invites the viewer into a space of profound introspection. It is a work that speaks to the 'unveiling' of the self—a stripping away of artifice to reveal the complex, often heavy, structures of the mind."