About the Work

5 plates
Small edition of 10
Hahnemühle paper, 230g, off white

Inner Ear turns the gaze, or rather, the listening, inward. Emerging from the same intuitive principles as What Happens To Thought If You Draw Everything You are Thinking?, this work takes form through the painterly method of sugarlift aquatint, where gesture meets color in vibrant immediacy. It opens an imagined inner space, a listening organ of sorts, where form and pigment pulse in visual acoustics.

Upon finishing this piece I started reading it like a detail, almost an enlargement, from the earlier dense composition, but while that work hums with rhythm and overflow, Inner Ear carries a more concentrated intensity. Here, the gestures gather into planes and contrasts, as if thought is no longer just formed, but heard.

What would it mean to have an inner ear, a sensory organ for the invisible, the intuitive, the yet-unspoken? Through its abstract, bodily visual language, perhaps Inner Ear invites precisely that question, and maybe the image itself is the answer: a listening form, open to receiving what thought alone might miss.