Principles of Reduction
The Ancestral Form
01
The concave holds more than the convex
The heart-shaped face hollows inward, creating presence through deliberate absence.
02
Surface as mirror, surface as skin
Palm-oil burnished blackwood absorbs and reflects light at the same instant.
03
Sight without depiction
Brass-strip inlay suggests vision without ever rendering the eye as organ.
04
The body is the reliquary
The bark container below holds ancestral remains — portrait and tomb as one.