Tobas Sabrina (charcoal on paper)

Tobas Study (My Sister)
Charcoal on paper

I asked my sister to sit for me wearing a Tobas headdress I had brought back from Bolivia. The drawing is large, almost imposing, yet what matters most to me is its incompleteness. Her face is rendered carefully, almost exact, while the rest of the figure dissolves into gesture and shadow.

I’ve always been drawn to leaving things unfinished, not out of neglect but as a way of mirroring memory. How it resists solidity, how it flickers in and out. This piece holds that tension: it’s both a portrait of my sister and a fleeting moment, an image that refuses to stay still.