Lockdown, 2021

Lockdown is a series of black ink drawings that emerged from the suspended, disembodied reality of the global pandemic. Figures drift through white space with obscured heads, detached limbs, and absent bodies, caught in a vacuum where time stalled and touch became forbidden.

These works capture the psychic fragmentation of isolation—the loss of identity, routine, and relational mirrors. Ink bleeds into paper like breath held too long, gestures frozen in mid-motion. The missing faces evoke the unseen emotional toll: anxiety, grief, numbness. The absence of connection becomes palpable.

Lockdown is not a record of a historic moment but a visual distillation of what it felt like to be cut off from others and from oneself. In the starkness of black and white, the drawings ask: Who are we when no one is looking? Where do we go when there’s nowhere to go?