And Still, You Asked? (blue/purple)

Medium

Engraving and oil on canvas

Dimensions

30"H × 22"W

Year

2026

This work reflects a world structured by systems that prioritize individuality without fully accounting for the complexity of collective existence. Within a contained space, forms twist, overlap, and attempt to navigate one another, held inside a framework that both defines and limits their movement. Interrupted lines move across the surface like signals, fragmented, repeated, and partially obscured, suggesting communication that is distorted, filtered, or incomplete. What should connect instead disrupts. What should clarify instead complicates. There is a tension between autonomy and entanglement. Each form exists on its own terms, yet cannot escape its proximity to others, moving within systems that fail to support true understanding. How can you ask me to explain myself… in a world that won’t let me fully exist? In this way, the work becomes both a reflection and a confrontation, questioning the conditions under which identity is formed, expressed, and understood.