Figures and Their Surroundings
How do posture, neighboring bodies and setting change the way you see a figure?
Move between standing and seated figures, heads with radiating marks, groups and bodies described by loose lines. Changes in scale and spacing draw attention toward the surrounding color and setting. Landscape-like passages offer another way to look at those relationships. Compare a body's outline with the shapes continuing beyond it.
Single Figure, Charged Ground
Four figures stand or crouch alone. Posture and outline are the whole subject; the background presses close but the body still holds its distinct shape.

Rawblocks #57
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View & watch drawingA wide-legged, fist-raised figure fills the frame; its golden body and radiating bone shapes establish the exhibition's opening note of physical assertion.

Rawblocks #10
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View & watch drawingArms lift again, but the patchwork torso begins to dissolve into the background, softening the clear outline of the previous figure.

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View & watch drawingThe seated, hunched posture reverses the upward energy; compressed limbs and close-set eyes shift the mood from assertion to withdrawal.
Where the first figure held a crisp white edge, this figure's contours loop and blur, the body already merging with its ground.
The raised arms of the previous work drop entirely; the figure folds inward, its bright blue shirt the only outward push against a heavy grey field.

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View & watch drawingA standing figure in a grid-patterned garment holds still against a warm, quiet background; two small blue eye-marks stare out from layered color fields.
The seated slump straightens into a guarded upright stillness, but the face remains unresolved—competing color patches replacing tangled contour lines.
Head as the Largest Part
These works shift visual weight upward. Oversized heads, bolted visors, dotted wraps, and crossed-out eyes make the skull the most active area of each composition.

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View & watch drawingAn enormous glowing head on a frail scratched body; translucent washes and a red-circle crown make the head the composition's entire event.
The grid-garmented figure's restrained face gives way to a head so large it nearly erases the body beneath it.

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View & watch drawingA bolted visor clamps over a skull packed with yellow-lavender hatching; the tiny stick body below makes the head's overflow feel precarious and exposed.

Rawblocks #11
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View & watch drawingA dotted blue wrap presses the head downward; one eye peers through tangled lines, and white streaks at the left edge suggest separation from open space.
Both works feature oversized heads on diminished bodies, but here the skull is clamped and frantic where the previous head glowed with translucent calm.
The bolted visor of the previous work is replaced by soft fabric weight; containment shifts from mechanical to draped, yet the face remains equally obscured.
Rawblocks #13
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View & watch drawingCrossed-out eyes seal the face shut; the warm yellow field presses close with rounded cellular shapes, trapping the dark head inside a living surface.

Rawblocks #51
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View & watch drawingThe face dissolves almost entirely into the golden ground; two pale-blue crosses and a small red mark are the only features left in the warm field.
The dotted wrap gave one eye a gap to peer through; here both eyes are crossed out, the face fully closed to the viewer.
The sealed eyes of the previous work become near-total dissolution here—the face present only as a gap between tangled dark lines and warm color.
Figures Together
Solitude ends. Bodies stack, crowd, and share the frame. The question shifts from what a single figure carries to what changes when figures occupy the same space.
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View & watch drawingA lone formal figure stands before an oversized shadow hand; the looming second presence introduces the idea of another body without showing one directly.
The dissolved face of the previous work is replaced by a clean white circle; but a giant shadow hand behind the figure inserts an unseen companion.
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View & watch drawingA broad figure carries a smaller one on its back, linked by tendrils; stacking makes the relationship between bodies the composition's central question.

Rawblocks #34
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View & watch drawingThree spiky figures sit on a shared platform against a looping maze; distinct facial marks on each suggest separate moods held in uneasy proximity.
The shadow hand hinted at a second presence; here that second figure is fully visible, perched on top and physically connected.
The stacked pair becomes a seated trio; the vertical relationship flattens into a horizontal row, and the maze background boxes them in together.
Rawblocks #62
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View & watch drawingA single standing figure returns, but its spiked crown, bared teeth, and layered outlines make it feel like a confrontation directed outward at the viewer.

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View & watch drawingSpeech-bubble punctuation and a frowning sun introduce off-frame presences; the spread-armed figure is caught between signals from multiple unseen sources.
The seated trio's shared tension is concentrated into one standing figure; its wide stance and radiating spikes address the space in front of it rather than beside it.
The previous figure's confrontation was physical; here it becomes textual—question marks and exclamation points crowd the margins as though others are responding.

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View & watch drawingAnimal-like black forms tangle across a pink field; overlapping figures and looping lines make individual bodies nearly impossible to separate from one another.

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View & watch drawingA tall central figure anchors a field of competing heads, teeth, and smaller forms; black divisions cut through saturated color, resisting any single reading.
The speech-bubble scene kept figures legibly apart; here outlines merge and crowd until the boundary between one body and the next dissolves entirely.
The tangled forms of the previous work gain a structural framework here—black divisions impose order, yet the crowded field still refuses to settle.
Body as Line and Silhouette
Two works reduce the figure to its most basic mark: a coiling line and a sealed dark shape. Setting recedes; what remains is outline against a flat or patterned ground.
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View & watch drawingA thick black line doubles back on itself into a body-shaped knot; the red-X face at the end of the winding path gives the tangle a dazed identity.
The crowded multi-figure field compresses into a single coiling form; all the surrounding noise becomes one restless, self-entangled shape.
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View & watch drawingA black silhouette curves inward against olive and yellow-green fields; a white eye and white arm-shape are the only interruptions in an otherwise sealed form.
The knotted line-body of the previous work resolves into a clean silhouette; detail disappears, leaving only the curve of a bent posture and two white breaks.
Into the Field
The final works move the figure into landscape or dissolve it into open color. Setting is no longer background—it becomes the subject, and the body must find its place within it.

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View & watch drawingUpright dark forms and pale clustered marks suggest a wooded opening; long forms entering from below give the eye directions to follow without a clear figure to anchor them.
The sealed silhouette of the previous work stood against a flat olive-yellow ground; here the ground itself becomes complex, and figure-like forms are absorbed into it.

Rawblocks #64
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View & watch drawingSlender dark verticals beneath a large yellow circle suggest trees and sky; horizontal lines in the foreground provide a different, flatter rhythm that opens the composition outward.
Both works suggest landscape through vertical and horizontal marks, but this one introduces a broad radiating circle that pushes the scene toward expansiveness rather than enclosure.
One more look
Look back at an earlier figure after spending time with the final surroundings. Which parts of its setting now attract more of your attention?