Cactus Tree, 2020

Cactus Tree is a grid of 35 ink drawings—stark black forms resembling mountains, spines, and abstract protrusions—intertwined with fragile bodies drawn in blood-red ink. Clinging, climbing, or being crushed, these figures trace a visual language of endurance.

The installation is a meditation on depression—its weight, its alienating vastness, and the quiet pain it imposes. The rigid black forms become both landscape and burden, while the red bodies embody the struggle to hold on, to rise, to survive within it.

Cactus Tree speaks in contrasts: strength and fragility, inertia and motion, numbness and raw sensation. It is a portrait of internal terrain—hostile yet alive—where the body becomes both the wound and the will to keep going.