Drawing
numbers (above)
“Numbers” is an ongoing body of work that is both a personal medium study in charcoal as well as an investigation into more abstract rendering, done as part of exploration into different modes of portraiture in 2018. In the series, The artist strips away most of the subjects’ features and try to ask: what kind of portrait is one undressed of ‘identity-forming’ features? How many of these ‘identity-forming’ features can be removed before a portrait ceases to be a portrait?