This series of large-scale watercolors (145 × 120 cm, handmade paper) explores bodies under pressure—compressed forms of both human and animal figures, stripped of limbs and heads, forced into relation with the fragile surface that contains them. By staging these bodies as flattened and incomplete, I sought to reflect a condition of constraint: a visual metaphor for how political, social, and ecological systems compress life into formats that deny its fullness.
The presence of animals, such as the pig, alongside human bodies underlines a shared vulnerability. These figures are not symbolic opposites but co-inhabitants of the same crisis. Their compressed forms echo the ways industrialization, ecological degradation, and systemic violence reduce both human and non-human life to expendable matter.
Working with watercolor on handmade paper was essential to the process: the material absorbs, stains, and resists control, embodying fragility and irreversibility. Each work is suspended between care and violence, precision and dissolution.
In this series, painting becomes an act of witnessing—articulating how bodies, whether human or animal, are shaped by forces larger than themselves, and how art can register both their vulnerability and their persistence.
