Pillar of Hades, 2022

14" x 17" Watercolor on Paper; unframed.

Pillar of Hades rises like a living relic from the underworld, a column not built but grown—knotted with faces, eyes, and mouths caught mid-whisper. It suggests a descent where identities fuse and individuality erodes, as though the dead are mortared together by memory and guilt. The pillar does not support a structure above; it is the structure, bearing the accumulated weight of countless souls who can no longer fall any further.