Window Through the Grid

A vertically composed collage places a narrow turquoise landscape inside a heavy rounded black frame, set against a pale, ghostly field of charcoal-gray forms and dense crosshatched grids. Tiny silhouettes of people and animals inhabit the inner scene, creating a striking contrast between intimate observation and the larger abstract structure surrounding it. The work has the unsettled, layered character of contemporary assemblage, with the central painted passage acting like a secluded window or portal.